Ouidane Chebbi, Faunule 2 (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (31.2° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.3° S, 28.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: gronbergi zone, Seheb El Rhassel Group, Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; claystone and marl

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. Klug, B. Kröger, D. Korn, M. Rücklin, M. Schemm-Gregory, K. De Baets, and R. H. Mapes. 2008. Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids. Palaeontographica Abteilung A (Band 283)83-176 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150360: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.09.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
  - Machaeracanthidae
Machaeracanthus cf. peracutus Newberry 1857 spiny fish
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Mimosphinctidae
Mimosphinctinae indet. Erben 1953 ammonite
 Orthocerida - Arionoceratidae
Parakionoceras sp. Foerste 1928
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Infundibuloceras brevimira Klug et al. 2008
 Orthocerida - Sphaerorthoceratidae
 Lituitida - Lamellorthoceratidae
Arthrophyllum vermiculare Termier and Termier 1950
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Neocycloceras sp. Flower and Caster 1935
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Sinuitina (Sinuitina) sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucanellidae
Crenistriella sp. Knight 1945 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomariinae indet. Swainson 1840 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma Conrad 1842 snail
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
Oriostoma sp. Munier-Chalmas 1876 snail
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Rotellomphalus tardus Perner 1903 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Lukesispira pulchra Frýda and Manda 1997 snail
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Palaeozygopleura sp. Horný 1955 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida -
 Cardiidia -
Grammysioidea sp. Miller 1877 clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Cyrtodontida - Spanilidae
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Cornuproetus maghrebus" = Sculptoproetus maghrebus
"Cornuproetus maghrebus" = Sculptoproetus maghrebus Alberti 1967 trilobite