Carbonate mud mound - Guelb el Maharch: Givetian, Morocco
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Walch 1771
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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cuvier 1797
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Tentaculita
- Styliolinida
- Styliolinidae
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Styliolina ? sp.
Karpinsky 1884
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unclassified
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Brachiopoda indet.
Cuvier 1805
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Anthozoa
- Rugosa
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Rugosa indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Alveolitidae
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Alveolites ? sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Pachyporidae
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Thamnoporella ? sp.
Sokolov 1955
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Auloporidae
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Auloporidae indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Stromatoporoidea
- Stromatoporoidea
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Stromatoporoidea indet.
Nicholson and Murie 1878
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unclassified
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Problematica indet.
Andrews 1970
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Geography
| Country: | Morocco |
| Coordinates: | 30.8° North, 4.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° South, 15.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
| Key time interval: | Givetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Mader Basin | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Guelb el Maharch Orientation: NNW-SSE Length: 200m Width: 140m Elevation: 30m (exposed top only) The mound facies is a thick-bedded to massive wackstone, floatstone or (locally) boundstone with varying amounts of skeletal debris. Frame builders occur only patchily in situ and are most common in the largest mound (Aferdou el Mrakib). | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 1568 | ||
| Database number: | 74492 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | F. Reichel |
| Modifier: | F. Reichel | Research group: | marine invertebrate,micropaleontology |
| Created: | 2007-08-07 07:39:31 | Last modified: | 2007-08-28 05:59:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-07 07:39:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24955. | J. Wendt. 1993. Steep-sided carbonate mud mounds in the Middle Devonian of the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Geological Magazin 130(1):69-83 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/F. Reichel] |