Bou Hamza section (Unit 3), Morocco (Miocene of Morocco)

Also known as Bou Hamza section (lower), Morocco

Where: Morocco (35.3° N, 3.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Data a composite of sampled horizons within "16 m thick shallow-water limestone". No formal lithostratigraphic names used in text. Dated tuffs within unit yielded an ages of 6.40 +/- 0.01 and 6.30 +/- 0.02 Ma.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone

• "The Melilla-Nador basin is one of the post nappe basins of the Rif region created during sun-Tortonian extensional period. Late Tortonian and Messinian deposits are widely transgressive over the tectonized bvasiment and lower part of the Messinian deposits is characterized by southward prograding shallow water bioclastic then reefal complexes, changing to open marine marls and diatomites
• 16 m thick shallow-water limestone, first bioclastic in type, changing upwards in Porites coral-reef banks with Halimeda

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection methods not detailed in paper.

Primary reference: S. Roger, P.h. Munich, J.J. Cornee, J.P. Saint Martin, G. Feraud, S. Pestrea, G. Conesa and A. Ben Moussa. 2000. 40Ar/39Ar dating of the pre-evaporitic Messinian marine sequences of the Melilla Basin (Morocco); a proposal for some biosedimentary events as isochrons around the Alboran Sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 179:101-113 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35037: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.10.2003

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Taxonomic list

• Taxonomic list in the enterers opinion not complete for section.
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812