Also known as Reef 3419
Where: Western Sahara (26.6° N, 11.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.5° S, 5.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)
• 4th reef cycle, Late Givetian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified rudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section
Primary reference: P. Königshof and S. Kershaw. 2006. Growth forms and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of stromatoporoids in a Middle Devonian reef, southern Morocco (west Sahara). Facies 52:299-306 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81292: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 17.06.2008, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fistulipora sp. McCoy 1850 | |
Rhabdomesidae indet. Vine 1883 | |
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Atactotoechus sp. Duncan 1939
? Cyphotrypa sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904 | |
"Ptilodictyonidae "indet. 1"" = Ptilodictyidae, "Ptilodictyonidae "indet. 2"" = Ptilodictyidae
"Ptilodictyonidae "indet. 1"" = Ptilodictyidae Zittel 1880
"Ptilodictyonidae "indet. 2"" = Ptilodictyidae Zittel 1880 | |
Intrapora sp. Hall 1883 | |
Rectifenestella sp. Morozova 1974
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
"Alternifenestella sp." = Spinofenestella Termier and Termier 1971 | |
Semicoscinium sp. Prout 1859 | |
Reteporidra sp. Nickles and Bassler 1900 | |
Anthozoa | |
Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
"Mesophyllum" sp. Schlüter 1889 horn coral | |
Phillipsastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge |