Locality S.5, Sosink, Derik-Mardin District: Middle Cambrian, Turkey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Dorypygidae
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Dorypyge terneki
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common category | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Conocoryphidae
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Conocoryphe (Conocoryphe) caecigena n. sp.
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Conocoryphe sp.
Hawle and Corda 1847
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Ptychopariida
- Proasaphiscidae
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Derikaspis toluni
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16 specimens | ||||||
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Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Paradoxididae
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Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) remus
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Turkey |
| Coordinates: | 37.3° North, 40.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 40.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Miaolingian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 3-4 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Cambrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 509.00000 - 497.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | fine lithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: 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 | |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: 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 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 69935 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner |
| Modifier: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-13 02:44:19 | Last modified: | 2007-03-13 05:28:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-13 02:44:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23488. | 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] |