'Cipit Limestone', Saklikent, Southern Anatolia, Western Taurus (Triassic of Turkey)

Also known as Reef 1

Where: Turkey (36.8° N, 30.3° E: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dereköy Unit Group, Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• 'Cipit Limestone' blocks: reworked carbonate reef blocks within basinal deposits

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen

Primary reference: P. Riedel. 1990. Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]. Ph. D. thesis - Erlangen 1-96 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60473: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 16.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"? Pycnoporidium eomesozoicum" = Gosaukammerella eomesozoica
"? Pycnoporidium eomesozoicum" = Gosaukammerella eomesozoica Flügel 1972
Foraminifera
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? Foliotortus sp. Senowbari-Daryan 1980
Foliotortus spinosus Senowbari-Daryan 1980
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Siphonoferidae
 Miliolida - Milioliporidae
Paraeolisaccus endococcus
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Paraeolisaccus endococcus Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1980