Where: Turkey (37.8° N, 38.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 33.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper Upper Maastrichtian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, coarse-grained limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. Meric and A. DeVries. 1966. Note sur les affleurements maestrichtiens de la region de Kahta (Turquie). Travaux de l'Institut de Geologie et d'Hanthropologie Prehistorique de la Faculte des Sciences de Poitiers 7:3-13 [L. Villier/L. Villier/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34586: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Omphalocyclus macroporus Lamarck 1816
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837 | |
Siderolites calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801 | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeolampas leskei sea urchin | |
Conulus douvillei Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin | |
Noetlingaster sp. n. sp.
Noetlingaster sp. n. sp. sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Lapeirousia jouanneti Des Moulins 1826 rudist | |
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop | |
Alectryonia aff. diluviana Stoliczka 1871 oyster | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra overweegi oyster |