Sancak 6: Rupelian - Chattian, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria (Lamarck 1804)
recombined as Haustator imbricataria
Turritella (Haustator) conofasciata (Sacco 1895)
recombined as Turritella (Haustator) conofaciata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar villanovae
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey State/province:Denizli
Coordinates: 37.9° North, 29.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 29.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Rupelian - Chattian
Age range of interval:33.90000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Akcay Formation:Mortuma
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Sancaktepe section 6
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Lithology description: 21 meters of siltstones intercalated with sandstones
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:110472
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-06-09 09:35:53 Last modified:2011-06-30 09:33:25
Access level:the public Released:2011-06-09 09:35:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28939. Y. Islamoglu. 2008. Molluscan biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Oligocene deposits in the Denizli and Kale-Tavas subbasins (SW Turkey). Geodiversitas 30(2):261-285 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]