Locality B11-19, Kef en Nsouri, Djebel Tebaga (Permian of Tunisia)

Also known as Reef 200

Where: Madanin, Tunisia (33.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° S, 17.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neoschwagerina margaritae foram zone, Lower Biohermal Complex Member (Djebel Tebaga Formation), Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• Presence of Yabeina and Neoschwagerina margaritae in lower Djebel Tebaga biohermal complex suggests upper Wordian age. Bioherm complex (beds 11-21) is estimated from map to be 138 metres thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and dolomite

• Bioherm complex, not examined in detail; thick bedded, draped, and very lenticular, limestone and dolomite and interbedded wedging thin beds of brown sandstone; carbonate beds vuggy, recrystallized with ghosts of fossils.

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 41657: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Includes sponges and bivalves; other groups are undescribed.
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Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Preverticillites columnella
Preverticillites columnella Parona 1933 demosponge