Where: Madanin, Tunisia (33.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 18.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wordian to Wordian (266.9 - 259.5 Ma)

• Merbah el Oussif Series is a member or formation-level stratigraphic subdivision, but no details are given and it is difficult to correlate to the units established by Newell et al. (1976). If this is above the Baten beni Zid Series (as suggested in the paper), it is Capitanian, but there are many structural complications according to Newell (1976). Includes three units: Sponge marls, small biomicrite banks, and Parachaetetes marls.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl and 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 42092: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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