Silty Shales Overlying Graptolitic Shales in the Pays de Skoura (Silurian to of Morocco)

Where: Morocco (32.0° N, 8.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.8° S, 18.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)

• Authors' age call based on shelly fossils.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty shale

• Some 300km N of Pridoli shoreline, according to paleogeographic map of ref. 7455.
• "silty shales"

Primary reference: W. B. N. Berry and A. J. Boucot. 1973. Correlation of the African Silurian rocks. Geological Society of America Special Paper 147:1-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27396: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.12.2002

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Lunulacardium eximium clam
genus given as "Lunulicardium"
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily