Dagpazari reef, Pirinç section, Coral domestone facies (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 33.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mut Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Lower Langhian

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; reef rocks and grainstone

• coral bioconstructions of variable shape and thickness that developed on both sides of the platform top. Domestone structures are represented by massive coral frameworks up to 13 m thick, associated with large coralline algal grainstone deposits and by more continuous coral beds up to 2 m thick. Smaller, isolated coral domestone patches can be also found within the benthic foraminifera packstone facies.
• Floatstone with irregular to round-shaped rhodoliths.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Vescogni, F. R. Bosellini, A. Cipriani, G. Gürler, A. Ilgar and E. Paganelli. 2014. The Dağpazarı carbonate platform (Mut Basin, Southern Turkey): Facies and environmental reconstruction of a coral reef system during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410:213-232 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166203: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp., Caulastrea sp.
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp., Solenastrea sp.
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Scolymia sp.
Scolymia sp. Haime 1852 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea sp.
Plesiastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812