Madene el Mrakib, Mader Basin (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (30.7° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 15.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: hemiansatus zone, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Lowermost Givetian

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; marl

• fine-grained strata underlying small carbonate mound deposits, within a shallowing-upward succession interpreted to have formed on the ramp
• marly to shaly sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Jakubowicz, B. Berkowski, M. L. Correa, E. Jarochowska, M. Joachimski and Z. Belka. 2015. Stable Isotope Signatures of Middle Palaeozoic Ahermatypic Rugose Corals – Deciphering Secondary Alteration, Vital Fractionation Effects, and Palaeoecological Implications. Plos one [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173004: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hadrophyllidae
Microcyclus roberti
Microcyclus roberti Maitre 1952 horn coral