Locality J5, Halk el Djemel, Djebel Tebaga (Permian of Tunisia)

Also known as Reef 200

Where: Madanin, Tunisia (33.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 18.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Undivided Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex. In other areas it is divided into Lower and Upper Biohermal Complexes, separated by the Middle Shaly Facies. 21 metres thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified, brown, yellow limestone

• Shale, greenish gray, with small yellowish brown bioherm in upper part.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. D. Newell, J.K. Rigby, A. Driggs, D.W. Boyd, and F.G. Stehli. 1976. Permian reef complex, Tunisia. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 23(1):75-112 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41972: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Sponges and bivalves.
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Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Prestellispongia lobata3
Prestellispongia lobata3 Parona 1933 demosponge
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet.
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo tebagaensis1
Palaeoneilo tebagaensis1 Termier and Termier 1959 clam
Crinoidea
 Sagenocrinida - Mespilocrinidae
Strobocrinus brachiatus n. gen. n. sp.2
Strobocrinus brachiatus n. gen. n. sp.2 Lane 1979 Sea lily
1Boyd and Newell 1979; 2Lane 1979; 3Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996