Manascha Kale (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.9° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 34.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Kühn. 1926. Korallen des Miozäns von Cilicien [Miocene corals from Cilicia]. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Wien 76:65-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 124505: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea italica Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
"Cyphastrea schafferi" = Solenastrea schafferi
"Cyphastrea schafferi" = Solenastrea schafferi Kühn 1926 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Orbicella conoidea" = Tarbellastraea conoidea, Orbicella sp.
"Orbicella conoidea" = Tarbellastraea conoidea Reuss 1871 stony coral
Orbicella sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
"Orbicella defrancei" = Heliastrea defrancei
"Orbicella defrancei" = Heliastrea defrancei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
n. subsp. cilicica