Karadon Formation: Carboniferous, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Lonchopteridium karvinese
Paripteris linguaefolia
Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris artemisiaefolioides
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Calamitaceae
Asterophyllites sp. Brongniart 1828
Calamites sp. Suckow 1784
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Annularia jongmansi
Polypodiopsida - Hymenophyllales - Hymenophyllaceae
Eusphenopteris cf. obtusiloba
Eusphenopteris schumannii
Eusphenopteris sauveuri
Pteridopsida - Filicales
Palmatopteris sturi
Pteropsida
Alethopteris davreuxi
spelled with current rank as Pecopteris (Alethopteris)
unclassified
? Karinopteris andraeana
Medullosaceae
Mariopteris muricata
Neuropteris obliqua
Equisetopsida - Sphenophyllales
Sphenophyllum emarginatum (Brongniart 1822)
Sphenophyllostachys sp. Seward 1896
unclassified
Alloiopteris sp. Potonie 1897
Alloiopteris similis
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey
Coordinates: 41.0° North, 31.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 31.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Carboniferous
10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1-5
*Period:Middle Carboniferous - Late/Upper Carboniferous
Key time interval:Carboniferous
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 298.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: Dominated by coarse, grey to buff sandstones and conglomerates with coals and subordinate siltstones and mudstones, including some thick clays. Most coals are found in the lower part of the formation.
Geology comments: Sequence represents interfingering of coarse sandy braided streams and humid alluvial fans.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Collection method comments: The entire formation is a dominantly sandy succession with subordinate shales, pebbly units, and thick coals. Basal part of the formation i s characterized by lacustrine depostis, while the upper parts comprises sequences formed by meandering low sinuosity streams. The coals closely resembles those of the later Westphalian coals of northwestern Europe.
Metadata
Database number:28300
Authorizer:R. Gastaldo Enterer:J. Allen
Modifier:J. Allen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-02-05 16:00:53 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:05:03
Access level:database members Released:2003-02-05 16:00:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7641. I.E. Kerey, G. Kelling, and R.H. Wagner. 1985. An outline stratigraphy and palaeobotanical records from the middle Carboniferous rocks of northwestern Turkey. Extrait des Annales de la Societe Geologique du Nord 203-216 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/J. Allen]