Locality Yo. 243A, Derik region: Caradoc, Turkey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Aegiromenidae
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Aegiromena sp.
Havlícek 1961
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Homalonotidae
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Colpocoryphe grandis
Snajdr 1956
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Dalmanitidae
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Dalmanitina proaeva
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Nobiliasaphus cf. nobilis
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Geography
| Country: | Turkey |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 49.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.5° South, 124.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Caradoc | Other zone: | Lagenochitina dalbyensis |
| Age range of interval: | 458.40000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Bedinan | Member: | Lower Shale | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The lowest fossiliferous horizon in the Bedinan Formation was found 0.5 m above its base at loc. Yo. 242... About 46 m higher in the succession, at loc. Yo. 243A, the fauna was more varied..." Chitinozoan zone based on Armoricochitina granulifera, which is common in the Lagenochitina dalbyensis zone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green poorly lithified "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Lithology description: friable, green-gray shales with occasional thin beds siltstone | |
| Environment: | offshore indet. |
| Geology comments: Environment not reported in text; inferred from lithology to be offshore [SMH] | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 64548 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Holland | Enterer: | S. Holland |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-10 11:13:55 | Last modified: | 2018-04-11 20:36:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-10 11:13:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18630. | 1% 10480 | W.T. Dean. 1983. Additional faunal data for the Bedinan Formation (Ordovician) of south-eastern Turkey. Special Papers in Palaeontology 30:89-105 [S. Holland/S. Holland] |