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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959 | |
Lithocodium aggregatum | |
Lithocodium aggregatum Elliott 1956 | |
Gastropoda | |
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Diceras sp. Lamarck 1805 rudist | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Shamovella | |
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 | |
Foraminifera | |
Foraminifera indet. foram |