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
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Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceratidae indet. M'Coy 1844 | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardiola interrupta clam | |
Panenka erosa clam
Panenka bohemica clam | |
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Pterinea carens oyster | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |