Where: Madanin, Tunisia (33.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° S, 18.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Shaly Facies Formation, Capitanian (265.1 - 259.9 Ma)
• Yabeina indicates Capitanian age. 20 metres thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, argillaceous lime mudstone
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 41854: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
"Amblysiphonella merlai" = Laccosiphonella merlai2
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Exotubispongia virgulata n. gen. n. sp.1
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Stellispongiella insculpta n. gen. n. sp.1, Stellispongiella bacilla n. gen.1, Prestellispongia paula n. gen. n. sp.1
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"Cystothalamia ramosa n. sp." = Imbricatocoelia ramosa2, Colospongia cortexifera n. sp.2, Subascosymplegma oussifensis2
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Pisothalamia spiculata n. gen. n. sp.2
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Disjectoporidae | |
Radiotrabeculopora cf. xiangboensis1 Fan et al. 1991 |