Oudjah el Rhar Series, Calcaire a Bellerophon et Ottonosia, Djebel Tebaga (Permian of Tunisia)

Where: Madanin, Tunisia (33.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 18.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)

• The calcaires a Bellerophon are one of the upper units in the area, and are definitely Capitanian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Fossils collected over wide area of Djebel Tebaga.

Primary reference: H. Termier, G. Termier, and D. Vachard. 1977. Monographie paleontologique des affleurements permiens du Djebel Tebaga (Sud Tunisien). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 156(1-3):1-109 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42098: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ottonosia
  -
Ottonosia lamellosa
Mats or components of oncolites
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
? Orthotichia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon asiaticus" = Waagenella asiaticus
"Bellerophon asiaticus" = Waagenella asiaticus Roemer 1880 snail
 Cycloneritida - Trachyspiridae
Trachyspira delphinuloides Gemmellaro 1889 snail
Trachyspira canaliculata Gemmellaro 1889 snail
 Vetigastropoda - Cirridae
? Auseria sp. Fucini 1895 snail
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
Cylindritopsis ovalis Gemmellaro 1889 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Micheliopsis lapparenti n. gen. n. sp.
Micheliopsis lapparenti n. gen. n. sp. Termier and Termier 1977 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Phymatopleura kattaensis Waagen 1880 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Euconospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
 Murchisoniina - Luciellidae
? Luciella sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis "sp. 1" M'Coy 1844 snail
Naticopsis "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 snail
Naticopsis cf. depressa Stache 1877 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Neritoma sp. Morris 1949 snail
Cephalopoda
 Aulacoceratida - Xiphoteuthididae
"Atractites" sp. Guembel 1861 belemnite