Bucakdere South, Kasimlar Basin (Triassic of Turkey)

Also known as Reef 91

Where: Turkey (37.5° N, 31.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 22.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• biostromes with corals and sponges

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Senowbari-Daryan and M. Link. 2016. Hypercalcified inozoan sponges from the Norian reef carbonates of Turkey. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 35(1):279-339 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183672: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Preperonidellidae
Preperonidella asymmetrica n. sp. Senowbari-Daryan and Link 2016 demosponge
Irregulaspongia parva Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2015 demosponge