Yassibel village, Polat Fm, sample 255 (Cretaceous of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (38.0° N, 31.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Voloshinoides murgensis zone, Polat Formation (Geyik Dagi Unit Group), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. O. Yilmaz. 1999. Taxonomic and Paelogeographic Approaches to the Dasyclad Algae in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)-Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Peritidal Carbonates of the Fele (YassÝbel) Area (Western Taurides, Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences (8)81-101 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149890: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
? Cornuspira sp. Schultze 1854
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
? Spiroloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826