Jebel Zaghouane, Tunis area, reef (Jurassic of Tunisia)

Also known as Reef 1147

Where: Tunisia (36.3° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° N, 14.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• The reef is mainly constructed by rudists, sponges and microbialites.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Ourribane, E. H. Chellai, and D. Zaghbib-Turki. 2000. Role des microbialites et des "micro-encroutants" dans la lithification recifale: exemples du Jurassique superieur de l'Atlas maghrebin (Maroc et Tunisie) [The role of microbialites and micro-encrusters in the reef lithification: examples from the Upper Jurassic of the Maghrebian Atlas (Morocco and Tunisia)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 330(6):407-414 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68082: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
 Thaumatoporellales -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Triploporella sp. Steinmann 1880
Foraminifera
  -
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Epidiceratidae