Tabainout mud mound complex, capping and flanking beds: Asbian - Brigantian, Morocco

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Endostaffellia sp.
Praeplectostaffella sp.
Pseudocornuspira sp.
Windsoporella sp.
Euxinita efremovi
Euxinita ? pendleiensis
Biseriamminidae
Biseriella parva (Chernysheva 1948)
Archaediscidae
Neoarchaediscus parvus
Neoarchaediscus ovoides
Archaediscus karreri
subsp. grandis
Planospirodiscus taimyricus
Asteroarchaediscus pustulus
Endothyridae
Endothyranopsis sp.
E. compressa?/plana?
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Koninckopora sp. Lee 1912
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Siphonodendron sociale
Siphonodendron pauciradiale (McCoy 1844)
Siphonodendron martini (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
Siphonodendron irregulare (Phillips 1836)
Diphyphyllum furcatum
Diphyphyllum lateseptatum
Lithostrotion araneum (McCoy 1844)
Lithostrotion vorticale (Parkinson 1808)
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Rotiphyllum sp. Hudson 1942
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Haplolasma sp. Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974
Arachnolasma cylindricum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Axophyllum aff. pseudokirsopianum Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
"Pseudozaphrentoides" juddi
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
"Amplexocarinia" sp. Soshkina 1928
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kiziliidae
Kizilia sp. Degtyarev 1965
Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
see common names

Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 5.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.3° South, 0.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Asbian - Brigantian
Age range of interval:340.20000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Late Asbian-Late Brigantian, Cf6γ-Cf6δ foraminiferal zones
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: bedded capping and flanking beds of the mud mound
Environment:perireef or subreef
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:134932
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2012-10-18 18:28:35 Last modified:2012-10-18 02:28:35
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-18 18:28:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43307. I. D. Somerville, S. Rodriguez, I. Said and P. Cozar. 2012. Mississippian coral assemblages from Tabainout mud-mound complex, Khenifra area, central Morocco. Geologica Belgica 15(4):308-316 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]