Locality C16, Merbah el Oussif West, Djebel Tebaga: Wordian, Tunisia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Bakevelliidae
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? Tambanella sp.
Nakazawa and Newell 1968
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Boyd and Newell 1979 | |||||||||
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Gervillia (? Cultriopsis) sp.
Cossman 1904
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Boyd and Newell 1979 | |||||||||
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= Cassiavellia nadkevnae
Temkin and Pojeta 2010
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Temkin and Pojeta 2010 | |||||||||
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Disjectoporidae
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Radiotrabeculopora reticulata
Fan et al. 1991
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 2 individuals | ||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Virgolidae
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Intratubospongia osiensis
(de Gregorio 1930)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 10 individuals | ||||||||
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Pseudohimatella n. gen. pauciporata
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Stellispongiellidae
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Stellispongiella n. gen. insculpta
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
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Stellispongia n. gen. bacilla
Termier and Termier 1955
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 27 individuals | ||||||||
| recombined as Stellispongiella bacilla | ||||||||||
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Prestellispongia n. gen. permica
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Spicidae
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Spica spica
Termier and Termier 1977
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | |||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Thaumastocoeliidae
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Sollasia ostiolata
Steinmann 1882
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | |||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Auriculospongiidae
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Auriculospongia auriculata
(Termier and Termier 1955)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
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Spinospongia n. gen. radiata
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Agelasida
- Preperonidellidae
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Permocorynella n. gen. ovoidalis
(Parona 1933)
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Radiofibra delicata
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 1 individual | ||||||||
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Imperatoria voluta
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
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Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
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Demospongiae
- Verticillitida
- Colospongiidae
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Colospongia cortexifera
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | |||||||||
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Subascosymplegma oussifensis
(Termier and Termier 1977)
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Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 | |||||||||
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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 | Foram zone: | Neoschwagerina margaritae - Yabeina |
| Age range of interval: | 266.90000 - 264.28000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Djebel Tebaga | Member: | Middle Shale | ||
| Local section: | C | Local bed: | 16 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Neoschwagerina margaritae and Yabeina. 35 metres thick. Same as bed 28, 29 in Section J. Middle Shaley Facies | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green,red "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Shale, greenish, gray and red, some flaggy sandstone and flat-pebble beds. | |
| 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:Sponges and bivalves. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 41836 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Bottjer, M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-21 10:36:36 | Last modified: | 2019-10-07 22:11:46 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-21 10:36:36 |
| 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] | |
| 34135 | I. Temkin and J. Pojeta. 2010. Cassiavella galtarae, new species, new genus: a new Permian bivalve and its significance for pterioidean systematics. Journal of Paleontology 84(6):1152-1176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen] |