AS 6, Aşağiyaylabel section (Triassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.6° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 27.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Austrotrachyceras austriacum ammonoid zone, Kasimlar Formation, Julian (235.0 - 232.0 Ma)

• Base of unit A of the Carbonate Member, Kasimlar Formation (Julian 2).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

• The material was collected (1995–2012) by the authors, by Mathias Harzhauser and Franz Topka (Natural History Museum Vienna), and on earlier field excursions (1980–1997) by Leopold Krystyn, Andreas Gindl and Philip Strauss (excursions organized by the University of Vienna).

Primary reference: S. Lukeneder and A. Lukeneder. 2014. A new ammonoid fauna from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) Kasimlar Formation of the Taurus Mountains (Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeontology 57:357-396 [M. Clapham/A. Delelli/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154843: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Celtitidae
Kasimlarceltites krystyni n. sp. Lukeneder and Lukeneder 2014 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Klipsteinia disciformis n. sp. Lukeneder and Lukeneder 2014 ceratite
Sirenites senticosus Dittmar 1866 ceratite