Where: Turkey (41.2° N, 31.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° S, 39.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cengellidere Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• The type locality of the Cengellidere Formation, five rudist-bearing units are identified, but fauna are not separated out

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly sandstone and shelly/skeletal limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, M. Fenerci-Masse, and S. Ozer. 2002. Late Aprian rudist faunas from the Zonguldak region, western Black Sea, Turkey (taxonomy, biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironment and palaeobiogeography). Cretaceous Research 23:523-536 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38882: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 12.05.2004

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