Kasal, section 5837, wackestone-packstone (Triassic to of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (39.5° N, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kasal Limestone Member, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• samples KO-4 to KO-8 of the Kasal Limestone Member, Hodul Unit of Karakaya Complex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

• reef debris from small discontinuous, lenticular reef knolls or banks on a muddy sea floor
• wackestones or wackestones to packstones with bioclastic or reefal debris, grainstone with broken debris

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: A. I. Okay and D. Altiner. 2004. Uppermost Triassic limestone in the Karakaya Complex - stratigraphic and tectonic significance. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 13:187-199 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73893: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• sponges, brachiopods, gastropods, echinoids reported to be present, but not listed
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Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium triadicum, Ophthalmidium martanum, Ophthalmidium leischneri
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
"Sigmoilina" schaeferae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Galeanella tollmanni, Galeanella variabilis, Galeanella ? minuta, ? Galeanella sp., Miliolipora cuvillieri
Miliolipora cuvillieri Bronniman and Zaninetti 1971
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina sp.
Agathammina sp. Neumayr 1887
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta carinata
 Miliolida - Ophthalmidiidae
Gsollbergella sp.
Gsollbergella sp.
listed as Gsoelbergella
Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
"Tetrataxis" nana
  -
Paleolituonella meridionalis
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Duostominidae indet.
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963
Foraminifera
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Turrispirillina sp.
Turrispirillina sp. Cushman 1927
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Duotaxis birmanica, Duotaxis inflata, Duotaxis metula
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina umbo, Trocholina sp., Trocholina turris
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
Trocholina turris Frentzen 1941
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Coronipora sp., Semiinvoluta sp.
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp.
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956