Yayla Tepe, Yo.156 (Cambrian to of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.4° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 132.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Seydisehir Formation, Paibian to Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• sample Yo.156, unit c of the formation, Changshanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified, sandy limestone

• thin-bedded sandstone with sandy limestone beds

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 133719: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.09.2012

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Leiostegiidae
Prochuangia turcica Dean 2006 trilobite