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Amerboh, Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

GroupAmerboh
Age:393 - 388 Ma
Devonian
IntervalEifelian
Tectonic SettingPassive margin
Lithologypackstone, "limestone"
Number of Collections2
Number of Occurrences9

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Filon Douze Tafilalt bed OPErrachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, MoroccoAmerboh
Amessoui 14aErrachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, MoroccoAmerboh

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Scyphocrinites Limestone423 - 419 Ma
Paleozoic
lime mudstone8
Bou Tchrafine388 - 383 Ma
Devonian
packstone/floatstone, "limestone", "limestone"/marl220

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Panenka sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Bivalvia : Praecardiidae : Panenka393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Sellanarcestes ebbighauseni
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Anarcestidae : Sellanarcestes : Sellanarcestes ebbighauseni402.5 - 391.9 Ma
Devonian
Bactrites sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Bactritidae : Bactrites393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Lobobactrites ellipticus
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Bactritida : Bactritidae : Lobobactrites : Lobobactrites ellipticus393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Nothoceratidae
family
5Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Nothoceratidae393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Theoceras sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Orthoceratidae : Theoceras393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Neocycloceras sp.
genus
6Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Pseudorthoceratidae : Neocycloceras393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Subormoceras erfoudense
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Pseudorthoceratidae : Subormoceras : Subormoceras erfoudense393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian
Subormoceras rissaniense
species
7Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Pseudorthoceratidae : Subormoceras : Subormoceras rissaniense393.3 - 387.7 Ma
Devonian

References

Klug C. (2002) Quantitative stratigraphy and taxonomy of late Emsian and Eifelian ammonoids of the eastern Anti-Atlas (Morocco), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 238, 1-109
Kröger B. (2008) Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco), Special Papers in Palaeontology 79, 1-110
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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