Where: Turkey (41.6° N, 33.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 41.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Beykoz Formation, Capitanian (264.3 - 259.5 Ma)

• Beykoz Formation with an olistostrome that contains shallow-water and pelagic Permian limestones blocks

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, fine-grained packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. W. Kozur, M. Aydin, O. Demir, H. Yakar, M. C. Göncüoglu and F. Kuru. 2000. New Stratigraphic and Palaeogeographic Results from the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic of the Middle Pontides (Northern Turkey) in the Azdavay, Devrekani, Küre and Inebolu Areas: Implications for the Carboniferous - Early Cretaceous Geodynamic Evolution and Some Related Remarks to the Karakaya Oceanic Rift Basin. Geologica Croatica 53/2:209-268 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 98144: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 21.09.2010

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