Locality B22, Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex, Kef en Nsoura, Djebel Tebaga: Capitanian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Stenolaemata
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida
Disjectoporidae
Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996 1 individual
Anthozoa
Tabulata indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Boultoniidae
Dunbarula sp. Ciry 1948
Neoschwagerinidae
Yabeina sp. (Deprat 1914)
Schwagerinidae
Chusenella sp. Hsu 1942
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia State/province:Madanin
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 10.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° South, 21.2° East (Wright 2013)
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 Foram zone:  Yabeina
Age range of interval: 264.28 - 259.51 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Djebel Tebaga Member:Lower Biohermal Complex
Local section:Jebel Tebaga B Local bed:22E
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Presence of Yabeina in lower Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex suggests Capitanian age. 6 metres thick. Probably bed 22E.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, even bedded, poorly sorted skeletal material, including fusulinaceans, crinoid columnals, tabulate corralines, bryozoans, and martinioid brachiopods. Includes small bioherm.
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:41659
Authorizer:D. Bottjer Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-19 13:49:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-19 13:49:58
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:

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]