Locality B1, Kef en Nsouri, Djebel Tebaga: Wordian, Tunisia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Lyroschizodus djemelensis
Boyd and Newell 1979
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Boyd and Newell 1979 | ||||||
Disjectoporidae
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Radiotrabeculopora cf. xiangboensis
Fan et al. 1991
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 5 individuals | |||||
Demospongiae
- Verticillitida
- Colospongiidae
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Cystothalamia ramosa
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
recombined as Imbricatocoelia ramosa | |||||||
Colospongia cortexifera
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Spicidae
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Spica spica
Termier and Termier 1977
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Virgolidae
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Pseudohimatella pauciporata
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 2 individuals | |||||
Intratubospongia osiensis
(de Gregorio 1930)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 2 individuals | |||||
Polytubifungia minima
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | |||||
Polytubifungia maxima
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 4 individuals | |||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Stellispongiellidae
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Prestellispongia lobata
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 4 individuals | |||||
Prestellispongia permica
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | |||||
Prestellispongia paula
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 8 individuals | |||||
Stellispongiella bacilla
(Termier and Termier 1955)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 17 individuals | |||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Preperonidellidae
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Permocorynella ovoidalis
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 2 individuals | |||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Auriculospongiidae
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Auriculospongia perforata
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 3 individuals | |||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Guadalupiidae
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Cystothalamia conica
(Termier and Termier 1977)
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Thaumastocoeliidae
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Girtyocoelia beedei
(Girty 1909)
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
Sollasia ostiolata
Steinmann 1882
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tunisia | State/province: | Madanin |
Coordinates: | 33.4° North, 10.2° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 7.5° South, 17.9° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Guadalupian |
Stage: | Wordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 4 |
Key time interval: | Wordian | ||
Age range of interval: | 266.90000 - 264.28000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Oum el Afia Shale | ||||
Local section: | B | Local bed: | 1 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 20+ metres thick. Oum el Afia shale is lowest stratigraphic unit in the region. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown,green "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Shale, green brown, contains leaves of land plants, Chusenella | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Includes sponges and bivalves; other groups are undescribed. |
Metadata
Database number: | 41654 | ||
Authorizer: | D. Bottjer | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2004-07-19 13:49:46 | Last modified: | 2008-07-23 18:50:19 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-19 13:49:46 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11153. | 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] |
Secondary references:
11157 | D. W. Boyd and N.D. Newell. 1979. Permian pelecypods from Tunisia. American Museum Novitates 2686:1-22 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
11156 | J. K. Rigby and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1996. Upper Permian inozoid, demospongid, and hexactinellid sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, New Series 7:1-130 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
11155 | B. Senowbari-Daryan and J.K. Rigby. 1988. Upper Permian segmented sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia. Facies 19:171-250 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |