Shale in the Pays des Sokhrats: Quartzites WNW of Bir-el-Rhandour (Silurian to of Morocco)
Where: Morocco (33.0° N, 7.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 31.9° S, 10.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 393.3 Ma)
• "The fauna is Pridoli or Gedinne in age"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale
• Some 300km N of Pridoli shoreline, according to paleogeographic map of ref. 7455. "The Llandovery and Ludlow age beds in the Pays de Sokhrats and nearby areas are primarily shale. The post-Ludlow age strata are predominantly quartzites and yield a fauna suggestive of nearshore conditions."
• "quartzite"
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 27401: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 05.12.2002
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
"Acaste spinosa" = Acastella spinosa
"Acaste spinosa" = Acastella spinosa Salter 1864 trilobite | |
| Bivalvia | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Orthis lunata" = Salopina lunata
"Orthis lunata" = Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
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