Kasal, section 5837, sponge-tabulozoan boundstones (Triassic to of Turkey)

Also known as Reef 3609

Where: Turkey (39.5° N, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kasal Limestone Member, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• samples KO-1, KO-2, KO-3 and KO-9 of the Kasal Limestone Member, Hodul Unit of Karakaya Complex

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• small discontinuous, lenticular reef knolls or banks on a muddy sea floor
• sponge-tabulozoan boundstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: A. I. Okay and D. Altiner. 2004. Uppermost Triassic limestone in the Karakaya Complex - stratigraphic and tectonic significance. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 13:187-199 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73892: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Oberhauserellidae indet.
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp.
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
"Sigmoilina" schaeferae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Galeanella sp.
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Planiinvoluta sp.
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina sp.
Agathammina sp. Neumayr 1887
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina turris
Trocholina turris Frentzen 1941
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Coronipora sp.
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Ophthalmidium sp.
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp.
Reophax sp. de Montfort 1808
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Duotaxis birmanica, Duotaxis sp.