Locality B1, Kef en Nsouri, Djebel Tebaga: Wordian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Lyroschizodus djemelensis Boyd and Newell 1979
Boyd and Newell 1979
Disjectoporidae
Radiotrabeculopora cf. xiangboensis Fan et al. 1991
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 5 individuals
Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Cystothalamia ramosa Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
recombined as Imbricatocoelia ramosa
Colospongia cortexifera Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Spicidae
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Virgolidae
Pseudohimatella pauciporata (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Intratubospongia osiensis (de Gregorio 1930)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Polytubifungia minima Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Polytubifungia maxima Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 4 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Prestellispongia lobata (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 4 individuals
Prestellispongia permica (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Prestellispongia paula Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 8 individuals
Stellispongiella bacilla (Termier and Termier 1955)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 17 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Permocorynella ovoidalis (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae
Auriculospongia perforata Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 3 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Cystothalamia conica (Termier and Termier 1977)
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Thaumastocoeliidae
Girtyocoelia beedei (Girty 1909)
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Sollasia ostiolata Steinmann 1882
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]