Where: Morocco (31.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 69.2° S, 14.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ludlow to Ludlow (427.4 - 419.2 Ma)
• "[fossils] are suggestive of an age in the span of Ludlow-Pridoli"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; black shale and limestone
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 27385: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras bohemicum" = Orthoceras fluminense
"Orthoceras bohemicum" = Orthoceras fluminense Meneghini 1857 | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardiola interrupta clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 |