Where: Turkey (40.1° N, 32.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 36.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• The ammonites collected by the author were examined by Dr. M. K. Howarth of the British Museum (Natural History). He identified Coroniceras cf. C. rotiforme (J. de C. Sowerby) and Phylloceras alontinum (Gemmellaro), both indicative of the C. bucklandi zone, from the east side of the valley, and Eoderoceras cf. E. armatum (J. Sowerby), indicative of the raricostatum zone from the west side. Several of the brachiopod species, however, were found on

•both sides of the valley, and it seems probable that they came from the same highly condensed succession of the Lower and Middle Lias.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, red limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. V. Ager. 1959. Lower Jurassic Brachiopods From Turkey. Journal of Paleontology 33(6):1018-1028 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

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