New species of the rugose coral genus Lithostrotion Fleming in the upper Viséan from the Azrou-Khenifra Basin (Morocco) | Zendy

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New species of the rugose coral genus Lithostrotion Fleming in the upper Viséan from the Azrou-Khenifra Basin (Morocco)

Author(s) -

Sergio Rodríguez,

Ian D. Somerville,

Ismail Said

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

spanish journal of palaeontology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.241

H-Index - 9

eISSN - 2660-9568

pISSN - 2255-0550

DOI - 10.7203/sjp.32.1.17028

Subject(s) - coral , genus , structural basin , ecology , biology , paleontology , geology , geography

The new species Lithostrotion termieri Rodríguez & Somerville is described. It shows very large corallites of the rugose genus Lithostrotion Fleming. It has been recorded up to now only in upper Viséan rocks from the type locality, the Akrab ridge, Morocco also called Tizi Ben Zizouit by Termier & Termier (1950), who identifi ed it as Lonsdaleia fl oriformis, and south-east from Tabainout, also from the Azrou-Khenifra Basin.

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