Filon Douze Tafilalt bed OP (Silurian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 71.5° S, 34.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ozarkodina snaidri–Ozarkodina crispi conodont zone, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• Temperoceras limestone succession. The unit was termed 'Orthoceras Limestone' by Hollard (1977, p. 182)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous, carbonaceous lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91456: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 27.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Lituitida - Sphooceratidae
Sphooceras truncatum Barrande 1860
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
Temperoceras ludense Sowerby 1839
 Orthocerida - Arionoceratidae
Arionoceras sp. Barskov 1966
Arionoceras sp. A
Arionoceras canonicum Meneghini 1843
 Orthocerida - Sphaerorthoceratidae
Plagiostomoceras culter Barrande 1866
Parasphaerorthoceras sp. Ristedt 1968
Parasphaerorthoceras sp. H
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras doricum Barrande 1868
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Kopaninoceras sp. Kiselev 1969
Kopaninoceras thyrsus Barrande 1870