Also known as Reef 3584
Where: Morocco (34.6° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 2.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J.-P. Saint Martin. 1990. Les formations recifales coralliennes du Miocene superieur d'Algerie et du Maroc [Upper Miocene coral reef formations from Algeria and Morocco]. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, C 56:1-373 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/S. Ávila]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70929: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiurida indet. Müller and Troschel 1840 brittle star | |
Bivalvia | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Thecostraca | |
Creusia oraniensis coral barnacle | |
Anthozoa | |
"Acanthastraea sp." = Acanthastrea
"Acanthastraea sp." = Acanthastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Foraminifera | |
Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Melobesioideae indet. Bizzozero 1885 |