Locality E15, Middle Shaly Facies, Merbah el Oussif, Djebel Tebaga: Capitanian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Intrasporeocoeliidae
Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis Fan and Zhang 1985
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1991
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Thaumastocoeliidae
Sollasia ostiolata Steinmann 1882
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella merlai Parona 1933
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Guadalupiidae
Cystothalamia conica (Termier and Termier 1977)
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Permocorynella n. gen. ovoidalis (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Peronidella magna n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
? Imperatoria fistulata n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 3 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Virgolidae
Parahimatella vesiculata n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Intratubospongia osiensis (de Gregorio 1930)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 5 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Spicidae
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Prestellispongia n. gen. lobata (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Stellispongiella n. gen. bacilla (Termier and Termier 1955)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 9 individuals
Stellispongiella insculpta n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Stellispongiella reticulata n. gen., n. sp. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Polyedridae
Polyedra tebagensis Termier and Termier 1955
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Misspelled Polyedera in taxonomic grid
Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia cortexifera n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Cystothalamia ramosa n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
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: 264.28 - 259.51 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Middle Shaly Facies
Local section:E - east of Merbah el Oussif Local bed:15
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Yabeina indicates Capitanian age. 8 metres thick, bioherm lens.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, bioherm lens.
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:41855
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-21 12:17:46 Last modified:2004-07-21 18:41:42
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 12:17:46
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:

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]
11197 B. Senowbari-Daryan and J.K. Rigby. 1991. Three additional thalamid sponges from the Upper Permian reefs of Djebel Tebaga (Tunisia). Journal of Paleontology 65(4):623-629 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]