Yassibel village, Polat Fm, sample 85 (Cretaceous of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (38.0° N, 31.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.0° N, 26.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campbelliella striata zone, Polat Formation (Geyik Dagi Unit Group), Early/Lower Berriasian (145.0 - 140.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. O. Yilmaz. 1999. Taxonomic and Paelogeographic Approaches to the Dasyclad Algae in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)-Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Peritidal Carbonates of the Fele (YassÝbel) Area (Western Taurides, Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences (8)81-101 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149954: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.08.2013

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
? Spiroloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
? Cornuspira sp. Schultze 1854
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Otternstella lemmensis Bassoulett et al. 1978
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Salpingoporelleae
Campbelliella striata Bernier 1974