Kasal, section 5837, wackestone-lime mudstone (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-10 to KO-12 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 lime mudstone

• reef debris from small discontinuous, lenticular reef knolls or banks on a muddy sea floor
• pinkish oncolithic wackestone with sponge spicules, lime mudstone to packstone with very fine debris of macrofossil fragments

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 73894: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
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Ophthalmidium martanum, Ophthalmidium leischneri, Ophthalmidium sp.
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
"Sigmoilina" schaeferae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Galeanella tollmanni, Galeanella sp.
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta carinata
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Duostominidae indet.
Duostominidae indet. Brotzen 1963
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Duotaxis metula, Duotaxis sp.
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp., Trocholina turris
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
Trocholina turris Frentzen 1941
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Semiinvoluta clari, Semiinvoluta sp.