Kazikli section, fossil horizon 2 (Cretaceous to of Turkey)

Where: Aydin, Turkey (37.4° N, 27.5° E: paleocoordinates 25.9° N, 24.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kizilagac Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 55.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; metamorphosed limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. Oezer. 1998. Rudist bearing upper Cretaceous metamorphic sequences of the Menderes Massif (Western Turkey). Geobios (22)235-249 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162808: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 06.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Coccolithophyceae
 Podorhabdales - Prediscosphaeraceae
Prediscosphaera cretacea Arkhangelsky 1912
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Micula staurophora Gardet 1955 coccolithophore
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae