Tinerhir, bryozoan-corallinacean mud mound (Eocene of Morocco)

Also known as Reef 831

Where: Morocco (31.5° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 7.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• informal "Upper Carbonate Unit", samples Hg 18584/27-29

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone and lithified bafflestone

• 3 m thick, 5 m lateral

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. G. Herbig. 1986. Lithostratigraphisch-fazielle Untersuchungen im marinen Alttertiär südlich des zentralen Hohen Atlas (Marokko) [Lithostratigraphic-facial investigations in marine Lower Tertiary south of the central High Atlas, (Morocco)]. Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen A 66:343-380 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76990: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839