Oued Madhouma (Miocene to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (34.1° N, 5.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 5.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; claystone and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Lauriat-Rage, A. B. Moussa, J.-P. Piquet and J.-P. Saint Martin. 1999. The bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Upper Miocene of the Sais Basin (Southern Rifian Corridor, Morocco). Palaeobiogeography and paleoecology. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 12(1):77-84 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173164: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet., "Ostreola stentina" = Ostrea stentina
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"Ostreola stentina" = Ostrea stentina Payraudeau 1826 oyster
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinnidae indet. Leach 1819 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
"Clamys (Mimachlamys) pusio" = Chlamys (Mimachlamys) scallop
 Cardiida - Mactridae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Veneridae indet. Rafinesque 1815 venus clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis
"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis Linnaeus 1767 clam