Betone Ech Chems Reef, Oujda (Miocene to of Morocco)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida -
Ophiurida indet. Müller and Troschel 1840 brittle star
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Pyrgomatidae
Creusia oraniensis coral barnacle
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
"Acanthastraea sp." = Acanthastrea
"Acanthastraea sp." = Acanthastrea Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Melobesioideae indet. Bizzozero 1885
Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808