Where: Mauritania (19.8° N, 13.5° W: paleocoordinates 73.6° S, 9.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• e-Beta-2, upper Budnanian (assigned questionably)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale and carbonate
Primary reference: J. Drot and J.-P. Lecorche. 1971. Sur la presence de Diabolirhynchia hollardi (Brachiopodes, Rhynchonellida) dans un niveau calcaire de l'Adrar mauritanien et ses consequences sur la stratigraphie du Siluro-Devonien de cette region. Annales de la Faculte des Sciences de Marseilles 46:181-188 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27332: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 02.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 |