Tabainout Ridge, median limestone (Carboniferous of Morocco)

Where: Meknes-Tafilalet, Morocco (33.0° N, 5.8° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tabainout Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• median limestone: build-ups and surrounding facies

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• build-ups without macroscopically visible fossils
• peloidal boundstones rich in microbial incrustations, automicrites and bryozoans

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Aretz and H. G. Herbig. 2010. Corals from the Upper Visean of the southern Azrou-Khenifra Basin (Carboniferous, Central Moroccan Meseta). Palaeoworld 19:294-305 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99647: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
? Sutherlandia sp.
? Sutherlandia sp. Cocke and Bowsher 1968 tabulate coral