Also known as Reef 2839
Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 3.7° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 1.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Zrigat Formation, Holkerian to Holkerian (342.8 - 336.0 Ma)
• Gnathodus texanus-Gnathodus bilineatus zones, most mounds in the G. praebilineatus zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Wendt, B. Kaufmann, and Z. Belka. 2001. An exhumed Palaeozoic underwater scenery: the Visean mud mounds of eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Sedimentary Geology 145:215-233 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76759: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae | |
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Anthozoa | |
Cyathaxonia sp. Michelin 1847 horn coral | |
Hapsiphyllidae indet. Grabau 1928 horn coral | |
Dibunophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
Lithostrotion sp. Fleming 1828 horn coral | |
Lophophyllidiidae indet. Moore and Jeffords 1945 horn coral | |
Favositida indet. Wedekind 1937 tabulate coral | |
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Goniatites cf. stenumbilicatus Kullmann 1961 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
Linoproductus sp. Chao 1927 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crenispirifer sp. Stehli 1954 | |
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Terebellina | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |