Locality E26, Merbah el Oussif East, Djebel Tebaga: Wordian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo tebagaensis (Termier and Termier 1959)
Boyd and Newell 1979
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
? Tambanella sp. Nakazawa and Newell 1968
Boyd and Newell 1979
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Virgolidae
Intratubospongia osiensis (de Gregorio 1930)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 7 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Stellispongiellidae
Prestellispongia permica (Parona 1933)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Prestellispongia paula Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 4 individuals
Stellispongiella insculpta Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Stellispongiella porosa Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 2 individuals
Stellispongiella bacilla (Termier and Termier 1955)
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 7 individuals
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella ramosa Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Thaumastocoeliidae
Enoplocoelia interchora Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
Disjectoporidae
Radiotrabeculopora cf. xiangboensis Fan et al. 1991
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Dasycladacean algae
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia State/province:Madanin
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 10.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.5° South, 18.0° 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:Middle Shaly Facies
Local section:E - east of Merbah el Oussif Local bed:26
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 6 metres thick, discontinuous bioherms.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Secondary lithology: argillaceous lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone bioherms; interbioherm marl and calcarenite.
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:41863
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-21 12:18:02 Last modified:2011-01-14 23:27:43
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-21 12:18:02
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]