Cerkezköy, Tekirdag (Cretaceous of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (41.3° N, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 25.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Campanian-?Lower Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• rudist limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Laviano and P. W. Skelton. 1992. Favus antei, a new genus and species of a bizarre "big cell" radiolitid from the Upper Cretaceous of eastern Tethys. Geologica Romana 28:61-77 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Favus antei n. gen. n. sp.
Favus antei n. gen. n. sp. Laviano and Skelton 1992 rudist