Where: Turkey (40.7° N, 39.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 40.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kasaba Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kasaba Fm, which regionally overlies the Uçarsu Fm (Early Miocene). AGE: Middle Miocene (Langhian) on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed near base of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Presumably, Y. Islamoglu. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly Maden Tetkik ve Arama, Ankara, Turkey.
Primary reference: Y. Islamoglu. 2004. Kasaba Miyosen havzasinin Gastropoda faunasi (Bati Toroslar, GB Türkiye). MTA Dergisi 128:137-170 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78548: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Zaria) spirata, Turritella bicarinata, Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata, Turritella (Turritella) turris
Turritella (Zaria) spirata turret shell
Turritella bicarinata Elchwald 1830 turret shell
Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata Brocchi 1814 turret shell
Turritella (Turritella) turris Basterot 1825 turret shell | |
"Ancilla (Baryspira) glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla (Baryspira) glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Murex (Bolinus) subtorularius Hörnes and Auinger 1885 murex snail | |
Galeodes cornutus Agassiz 1843 snail | |
"Latirus (Dolicholatirus) cf. dispar" = Dolicholatirus
"Latirus (Dolicholatirus) cf. dispar" = Dolicholatirus snail | |
Mitrella nassoides snail | |
Clavatula asperulata snail | |
Conus clavatulus, Conus conoponderosus, "Conus antiquus" = Lithoconus antiquus, "Conus puschi" = Plagioconus puschi
Conus clavatulus cone shell
Conus conoponderosus cone shell
"Conus antiquus" = Lithoconus antiquus Lamarck 1810 cone shell
"Conus puschi" = Plagioconus puschi Michelotti 1857 cone shell | |
Subula (Oxymeris) plicaria auger snail | |
Ficus geometra fig shell | |
"Cypraea (Bernaya) fabagina" = Prozonarina fabagina
"Cypraea (Bernaya) fabagina" = Prozonarina fabagina Lamarck 1810 cowry | |
Xenophora deshayesi Michelotti 1847 carrier shell | |
Aporrhais pespelecani Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
"Distorsio (Rhysema) tortuosa" = Distorsio
"Distorsio (Rhysema) tortuosa" = Distorsio snail | |
Natica millepunctata Sacco 1890 moon snail |