Kasal, section 5838, grainstone (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-14 and KO-13 of the Kasal Limestone Member, Hodul Unit of Karakaya Complex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified grainstone

• reef debris from small discontinuous, lenticular reef knolls or banks on a muddy sea floor
• grainstones with bioclastic 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 73898: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Oberhauserellidae indet.
Foraminifera
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Ophthalmidium triadicum, Ophthalmidium sp.
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospirella sp.
Glomospirella sp. Plummer 1945
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Miliolipora cuvillieri
Miliolipora cuvillieri Bronniman and Zaninetti 1971
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta sp.
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Duotaxis birmanica, Duotaxis metula
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina acuta, Trocholina sp.
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Aulotortus friedli, Semiinvoluta sp.