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 | |
Sphooceras truncatum Barrande 1860 | |
Temperoceras ludense Sowerby 1839 | |
Arionoceras canonicum Meneghini 1843
Arionoceras aff. canonicum Meneghini 1843 | |
Hemicosmorthoceras semimbricatum, Plagiostomoceras culter, Plagiostomoceras pleurotomum, Parasphaerorthoceras sp.
Hemicosmorthoceras semimbricatum Gnoli 1982
Plagiostomoceras culter Barrande 1866
Plagiostomoceras pleurotomum Barrande 1874 | |
Kionoceras doricum Barrande 1868 | |
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
Kopaninoceras sp. Kiselev 1969
Kopaninoceras thyrsus Barrande 1870
Kopaninoceras dorsatoides Kröger 2008 |