Locality E14, Middle Shaly Facies, Merbah el Oussif, Djebel Tebaga: Capitanian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Disjectoporidae
Radiotrabeculopora cf. xiangboensis Fan et al. 1991
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 3 individuals
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Pisothalamia spiculata n. gen., n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Virgolidae
Polytubifungia maxima n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 3 individuals
Microsphaerispongia polyarteria n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Preverticillites columnella Parona 1933
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Stellispongiella insculpta n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Stellispongiella n. gen. bacilla (Termier and Termier 1955)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 16 individuals
Prestellispongia paula n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella merlai Parona 1933
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
misspelling Laccosiphonella merlai
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Exotubispongiidae
Exotubispongia virgulata n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 18 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Spicidae
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae
Auriculospongia perforata n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Auriculospongia auriculata (Termier and Termier 1955)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia cortexifera n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Subascosymplegma oussifensis (Termier and Termier 1977)
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Cystothalamia ramosa n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
recombined as Imbricatocoelia ramosa
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia State/province:Madanin
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 10.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° South, 18.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Guadalupian
Stage:Capitanian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Capitanian
Age range of interval:264.28000 - 259.51000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Middle Shaly Facies
Local section:E - east of Merbah el Oussif Local bed:14
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Yabeina indicates Capitanian age. 20 metres thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal argillaceous lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Marl, very fossiliferous, one or more small bioherm lenses.
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:41854
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-21 12:17:44 Last modified:2004-07-21 18:41:03
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 12:17:44
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:

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]