Tiflet Limestone, RT IXa, Rabat-Tiflet Area, Morocco (Devonian of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (34.0° N, 6.9° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° S, 22.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tiflet Limestone Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Tiflet-Kalk. Upper Pragian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

• From Ref. 7488: "The Rabat-Tiflet area is a complex "anticlinal resp. anticlinorial" structure (W-E). The beds are folded in a mediotype style and disturbed by normal faults and several overthrusts of limited extent. Traces of isoclinal folding are rare. The folding is the result of the Hercynian (Variscan) orogeny. The R-T area is a typical region of the so-called Hercynian-Bohemian facies development of the Silurian and Devonian, moreover in facies and faunal development very reminiscent of the barrandian area...It is characterized by a complete marine succession, a conformable gradual transition from the Upper Silurian (Budnanian) into the early Lower Devonian (Lochkovian), without any effects of the Late Caledonian orogeny."
• Lithology based on stratigraphic column (see collection 27050, ref. 7484).

Primary reference: G. K. B. Alberti. 1970. Trilobiten des juengeren Siluriums sowie des Unter- und Mitteldevons. II. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 525:1-233 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27056: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Faunas of the R-T area include graptolites, tentaculitids, conodonts, and brachiopods. The last two groups have not been studied in detail.
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Trilobita
 Lichida - Lichidae
Acanthopyge sp.
Acanthopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) taciturnus" = Cornuproetus taciturnus
"Cornuproetus (Cornuproetus) taciturnus" = Cornuproetus taciturnus Kegel 1926 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Eremiproetus cacuminatus, Astycoryphe sp. n. sp.
Astycoryphe sp. n. sp. Richter 1919 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops (Reedops) aff. maurulus" = Reedops maurulus
"Phacops (Reedops) aff. maurulus" = Reedops maurulus Alberti 1969 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) gibbus" = Crotalocephalina gibbus
"Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) gibbus" = Crotalocephalina gibbus Beyrich 1845 trilobite
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Nowakia acuaria
 Nowakiida - Peneauiidae
Guerichina strangulata, Guerichina cf. strangulata
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily