Cap Guir, Agadir, Coral Reef (Jurassic of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 2854

Where: Morocco (30.7° N, 9.9° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 5.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• The main reef builders are corals (70%).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Ourribane, E. H. Chellai, and D. Zaghbib-Turki. 2000. Role des microbialites et des "micro-encroutants" dans la lithification recifale: exemples du Jurassique superieur de l'Atlas maghrebin (Maroc et Tunisie) [The role of microbialites and micro-encrusters in the reef lithification: examples from the Upper Jurassic of the Maghrebian Atlas (Morocco and Tunisia)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 330(6):407-414 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68080: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Diceratidae
Diceras sp. Lamarck 1805 rudist
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -