Tabainout mud mound complex, capping and flanking beds (Carboniferous to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.9° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° S, 0.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Late Asbian-Late Brigantian, Cf6γ-Cf6δ foraminiferal zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• bedded capping and flanking beds of the mud mound

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville, S. Rodriguez, I. Said and P. Cozar. 2012. Mississippian coral assemblages from Tabainout mud-mound complex, Khenifra area, central Morocco. Geologica Belgica 15(4):308-316 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
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 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyranopsis sp.
E. compressa?/plana?
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
Biseriella parva Chernysheva 1948
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
"Amplexocarinia" sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral
 Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Axophyllum aff. pseudokirsopianum Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Siphonodendron irregulare Phillips 1836 horn coral
Siphonodendron pauciradiale McCoy 1844 horn coral
Lithostrotion vorticale Parkinson 1808 horn coral
Lithostrotion araneum McCoy 1844 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Haplolasma sp. Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kiziliidae
Kizilia sp. Degtyarev 1965 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral