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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge | |
Florideophyceae | |
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |