Where: Turkey (41.1° N, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 26.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Davutlar Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, yellow, sandy limestone and lithified, gray, yellow marl
•up of thick-bedded, yellow sandy limestone interbedded
•with thin, yellow marl and limestone. The upper two-thirds
•of the succession is composed of grey marl with thin lime-
•stone and sandy interbeds. The succession exposed is about
•90 m thick; the upper, highly fossiliferous succession yield-
•ing the ammonites and inoceramids is about 35 m thick.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, C. Tunoglu, I. Walaszczyk and I. E. Ertekin. 2007. Ammonite and inoceramid faunas from the Davutlar Formation of the Devrekani-Kastamonu area, nothern Turkey, and their biostratigraphical significance. Cretaceous Research 28:861-894 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130884: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 15.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Cephalopoda | |
|
Didymoceras binodosum Kennedy and Cobban 1993 ammonite
Bostrychoceras polyplocum Roemer 1841 ammonite | |
|
Baculites alavensis ammonite | |
|
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) oldhami Sharpe 1855 ammonite
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) haldemsis Schluter 1867 ammonite | |
| Bivalvia | |
Platyceramus cycloides, Cataceramus planus, "Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus, Inoceramus borilensis, "Cordiceramus heberti" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus)
Platyceramus cycloides Wegner 1905 clam
Cataceramus planus clam
"Inoceramus tenuilineatus" = Inoceramus (Cataceramus) tenuilineatus Hall and Meek 1855 clam
"Cordiceramus heberti" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam | |