Akerbouss, reefal unit, Meknes-Tafilalet (Cretaceous of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 2008

Where: Morocco (31.8° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.8° N, 3.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified packstone and lithified wackestone

• 21 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Ferrandini, J. Philip, J. F. Babinot, J. Ferrandini, and G. Tronchetti. 1985. La plate-forme carbonatee du Cenomano-Turonien de la region d'Erfoud-Errachidia (Sud-Est marocain): stratigraphie et paleoenvironnements [The Cenomanian-Turonian carbonate platform of the Erfoud-Errachidia region (southeastern Morocco): stratigraphy and paleoenvironments]. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France, 8. serie 1(4):559-564 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67619: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
  -
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Cisalveolina fraasi Gümbel 1872
Foraminifera
  -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida -
"Stromatoporida" indet. Stearn 1980 stromatoporoid sponge
informal added by Kiessling
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831