Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 57.5° S, 28.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: dehiscens 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 150363: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 06.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Machaeracanthus sp. Newberry 1857 spiny fish
Machaeracanthus cf. peracutus Newberry 1857 spiny fish | |
Hyolitha | |
Orthotheca sp. Novak 1886 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Polychaeta | |
Lepidocoleus rugatus scale worm | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthocycloceras "sp. A" Barskov 1972 | |
Arthrophyllum vermiculare Termier and Termier 1950 | |
Gastropoda | |
Sinuitina (Sinuitina) sp. Knight 1945 snail | |
Lukesispira pulchra Frýda and Manda 1997 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo emarginata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Phestia rostellata clam | |
"Cucullella (Cucullella) triquetra" = Nuculites
"Cucullella (Cucullella) triquetra" = Nuculites clam | |
Nuculoidea grandaeva clam | |
Panenka cf. hollardi clam |