Hassi Nebech section 2, bed 10f (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.9° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Probably Taouzites taouzensis Zone. Relatively poor conodont fauna of the cristatus ectypus to disparilis Zone (Klapperina has not yet been found locally).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, nodular, intraclastic wackestone

• 80 cm light-grey, bioturbated nodular limestone, styliolinid wackestone with intraclasts, some fine quartz sand

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Bockwinkel, R. T. Becker, and V. Ebbighausen. 2013. Late Givetian ammonoids from Hassi Nebech (Tafilalt Basin, Anti-Atlas, southern Morocco). Fossil Record 16:5-65 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189347: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.10.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Taouzitidae
Darkaoceras meridionale Petter 1959 ammonite
 Agoniatitida - Pharciceratidae
Synpharciceras sp. Schindewolf 1940 ammonite
Stenopharciceras protectum Bockwinkel et al. 2009 ammonite
Lunupharciceras serpentinum Bockwinkel et al. 2009 ammonite
Extropharciceras conex Bockwinkel et al. 2009 ammonite
Extropharciceras ex gr. arenicum Petter 1959 ammonite
Extropharciceras librum Bockwinkel et al. 2009 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Epitornoceras mithracoides Frech 1902 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail