Yayla Tepe, Z.72 (Cambrian of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.4° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.9° S, 134.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chuangia trilobite zone, Seydisehir Formation, Guzhangian (500.5 - 497.0 Ma)

• sample Z.72, unit a of the formation, Kushanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty shale

• green-grey, silty shale with thin beds brown-weathering quartzite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: W. T. Dean. 2006. Cambrian stratigraphy and trilobites of the Samur Dag area, south of Hakkari, southeastern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 15:225-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133717: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Aphelaspidae
? Elegantaspis montis
? Elegantaspis montis Dean 2006 trilobite