AS 16+13m, Aşağiyaylabel section (Triassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.6° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 24.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tropites dilleri ammonoid zone, Kasimlar Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Marlstone member, Tuvalian 1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

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 154859: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Proarcestes sp. Mojsisovic 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Paratropites cf. hoetzendorfii Diener 1917 ceratite