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Filon Douze Tafilalt, P: Eifelian, Morocco
collected by Kröger 2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Brevicoceratidae
Brevicoceras magnum Kröger 2008
1 specimen
Cerovoceras fatimi Kröger 2008
1 specimen
Cerovoceras brevidomus Kröger 2008
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Nothoceratidae
Nothoceratidae sp. Fischer 1882
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Infundibuloceras longicameratum Kröger 2008
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Subormoceras rissaniense Kröger 2008
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Diagoceras sp. Flower 1936
1 specimen
see common names
Geography
Country:Morocco
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 4.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.4° South, 19.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Eifelian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Eifelian Conodont zone: Pedavus patulus- Oneotus costatus
Age range of interval:391.9 - 388.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bou Tchrafine
Local section:Filon Douze Local bed:P
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified calcareous packstone
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous floatstone
Lithology description: 1-m thick, massive, dark grey dacryoconarid packstone-floatstone that consists of two conspicuous fossil rich layers, see also Klug (2002)
Environment:offshore shelf Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:common
Articulated whole bodies:none
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,surface (in situ),mechanical
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:MfN
Collectors:Kröger Collection dates:2007
Metadata
Database number:92077
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-10-28 15:15:28 Last modified:2009-10-28 17:15:28
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-28 15:15:28
Reference information
Primary reference:
29331 B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]