Where: Turkey (40.7° N, 39.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 40.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Uçarsu Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• 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.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Presumably, Y. Islamoglu. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Maden Tetkik ve Arama, Ankara, Turkey.
Primary reference: Y. Islamoglu. 2004. Kasaba Miyosen havzasinin Gastropoda faunasi (Bati Toroslar, GB Türkiye). MTA Dergisi 128:137-170 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78543: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella (Haustator) striatellatus" = Haustator
"Turritella (Haustator) striatellatus" = Haustator turret shell | |
Ficus geometra fig shell | |
Clavatula asperulata snail | |
Natica millepunctata Sacco 1890 moon snail |