Ortabag patch reefs, Susuz Dag Mts., Kasaba Formation, Antalya (Miocene of Turkey)

Also known as Reef 648

Where: Turkey (36.4° N, 29.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 29.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kasaba Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• patch reefs, up to 8 m high and 40-50 m across, within a prograding fan delta-type succession

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. B. Hayward, A. H. F. Robertson, and T. C. Scoffin. 1996. Miocene patch reefs from a mediterranean marginal terrigenous setting in southwest Turkey. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:317-332 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69903: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Favites sp., Favites neglecta, Tarbellastraea silciliae, Tarbellastraea sp.
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Favites neglecta Michelotti 1868 stony coral
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum sp.
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion, Mesophyllum sp.
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Gypsina plana
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Homotrema rubrum
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
Planorbulina sp.
Planorbulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826