Locality B11-19, Kef en Nsouri, Djebel Tebaga: Wordian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia State/province:Madanin
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 10.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° South, 20.0° East (Wright 2013)
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
Age range of interval: 266.9 - 264.28 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Djebel Tebaga Member:Lower Biohermal Complex
Local section:Jebel Tebaga B Local bed:11-19
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Presence of Yabeina and Neoschwagerina margaritae in lower Djebel Tebaga biohermal complex suggests upper Wordian age. Bioherm complex (beds 11-21) is estimated from map to be 138 metres thick.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: dolomite
Lithology description: Bioherm complex, not examined in detail; thick bedded, draped, and very lenticular, limestone and dolomite and interbedded wedging thin beds of brown sandstone; carbonate beds vuggy, recrystallized with ghosts of fossils.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
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
Also known as:Reef 200
Database number:41657
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-19 13:49:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-19 13:49:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
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:

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]