Where: Libya (27.5° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.3° S, 35.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Idri Formation, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)
• Age range of formation is Givetian to early Frasnian (ref. 8780). However, the bulk is Givetian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and silty claystone
Primary reference: V. Havlicek and P. Rohlich. 1987. Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods from the northern flank of the Murzug Basin (Libya). Sbornik Geologickych Ved: Paleontologie 28:117-177 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36191: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 16.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |