Locality E27, Merbah el Oussif East, Djebel Tebaga (Permian of Tunisia)

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: Middle Shaly Facies Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• 12 metres thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green, red shale and sandstone

• Shale, red (upper) to grayish green (lower), with slabby sandstone at top.

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 41864: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Sponges and bivalves.
Disjectoporidae
  - Disjectoporidae
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Prestellispongia paula3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Prestellispongia permica3 Parona 1933 demosponge
Prestellispongia scapulata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Prestellispongia lobata3 Parona 1933 demosponge
Stellispongiella bacilla3 Termier and Termier 1955 demosponge
Stellispongiella reticulata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Estrellospongia grossa3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
 Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Cystauletes mammilosus4 King 1943 demosponge
Cystothalamia conica4 Termier and Termier 1977 demosponge
 Agelasida - Thaumastocoeliidae
Sollasia cf. amaurosa4 Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 demosponge
Questioned Sollasia ?amaurosa
Girtyocoelia beedei4 Girty 1909 demosponge
 Agelasida - Exotubispongiidae
Exotubispongia pustulata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Exotubispongia virgulata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Imperatoria voluta3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Radiofibra lineata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
"Peronidella magna" = Preperonidella magna3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
 Agelasida - Virgolidae
Intratubospongia osiensis3 de Gregorio 1930 demosponge
Polytubifungia maxima3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Pseudohimatella pauciporata3 Parona 1933 demosponge
 Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae
Auriculospongia perforata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Auriculospongia auriculata3 Termier and Termier 1955 demosponge
Daharella ramosa3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
Spinospongia radiata3 Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Subascosymplegma oussifensis4 Termier and Termier 1977 demosponge
Colospongia cortexifera4 Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 demosponge
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo tebagaensis1 Termier and Termier 1959 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Lyroschizodus djemelensis1 Boyd and Newell 1979 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp.1 Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
? Leptodesma sp.1 Hall 1883 oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Cassiavellia nadkevnae5 Temkin and Pojeta 2010 oyster
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Denguiria azzouzorum n. gen. n. sp.1
Denguiria azzouzorum n. gen. n. sp.1 Boyd and Newell 1979 scallop
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
? Claraia posidoniformis1 Termier and Termier 1977 scallop
Crinoidea
 Dendrocrinida - Laudonocrinidae
Tetrabrachiocrinus fabianii2 Yakovlev 1934 Sea lily