Siradona - mudstone facies [Uçarsu Fm]: Burdigalian, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Subula (Oxymeris) plicata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella terebralis Lamarck 1799
Turritella (Haustator) striatellus
spelled with current rank as Haustator
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey
Coordinates: 40.7° North, 39.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 40.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Uçarsu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Uçarsu Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Kasaba Fm (Middle Miocene). AGE: Early Miocene (Burdigalian) on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed near base of section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Mudstone. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably, Y. Islamoglu. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Maden Tetkik ve Arama, Ankara, Turkey.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and assignments to species and subgenus resolution.
Metadata
Database number:78547
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-07 23:27:56 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-07 23:27:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25058. Y. Islamoglu. 2004. Kasaba Miyosen havzasinin Gastropoda faunasi (Bati Toroslar, GB Türkiye). MTA Dergisi 128:137-170 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]