Where: Turkey (37.8° N, 38.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 33.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper Upper Maastrichtian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. Meric and A. DeVries. 1966. Note sur les affleurements maestrichtiens de la region de Kahta (Turquie). Travaux de l'Institut de Geologie et d'Hanthropologie Prehistorique de la Faculte des Sciences de Poitiers 7:3-13 [L. Villier/L. Villier/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34586: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Siderolites calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801 | |
Omphalocyclus macroporus Lamarck 1816
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837 | |
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra overweegi oyster | |
Alectryonia aff. diluviana Stoliczka 1871 oyster | |
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist | |
Lapeirousia jouanneti rudist | |
Echinoidea | |
Noetlingaster sp. n. sp.
Noetlingaster sp. n. sp. sea urchin | |
Clypeolampas leskei sea urchin | |
Conulus douvillei Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin |