Locality S.11, Sosink, Derik-Mardin District (Cambrian of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.3° N, 40.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 40.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sosink Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• 90 m above base of Sosink Fm.(total thickness of 1057 m)

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, silty shale and lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• silty shales and fine grained sandstones with occasional thin bands of limestone, which include some calcarenites in which glauconite may be abundant, but micrites and whitish, sparry limestones also occur

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk,

• Material prefixed It. housed in the Department of Palaeontology, British Museum (Natural History), London; prefixed MTA housed in the collection of Maden Tektik ve Arama, Ankara

Primary reference: W. T. Dean. 1982. Middle Cambrian trilobites from the Sosnik Formation, Derik-Mardin district, south-eastern Turkey. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Series 36(1):1-41 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69956: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 13.03.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
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Trilobita "indet. A"
Trilobita "indet. A" Walch 1771 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) remus n. sp.
 Ptychopariida - Proasaphiscidae
Chelidonocephalus anatolicus, Derikaspis toluni