TK9, Curuk Dag coal mine section (Permian of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.7° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° S, 34.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pamucak Formation, Wordian (266.9 - 264.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous wackestone

• Marlstone and marly bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Verna, L. Angiolini, S. Crasquin and A. Nicora. 2011. Guadalupian brachiopods from western Taurus, Turkey. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 117(1) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107229: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Bilotina acantha Waterhouse and Piyasin 1970
Bilotina yanagidai Angiolini 1999
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Neochonetes (Nongtaia) aff. arabicus Hudson and Sudbury 1959
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Metriolepis sp. Cooper and Grant 1976
 Terebratulida - Heterelasminidae
? Qinglongia sp. Liao 1980
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Squamularia sp. Gemmellaro 1899
Squamularia marcouxi Verna and Angiolini 2011
Squamularia rotundata Gemmellaro 1899