Ulukışla Fm, between the Ardıçlı and İmrahor logs (Paleocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.6° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 31.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ulukışla Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone and packstone

• Some small reefal mounds surrounded by relatively deeper marine mudstone crop out between the Ardıçlı and İmrahor logs. Bioclasts bearing wackestone and packstone around the bindstone bearing patch reef core reflect sedimentation in quieter water

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Zorlu, S. Inan, and M. Gül, N., M. A. Kurt and M. Alpaslan. 2011. Geological Evolution of the Ulukışla Basin (Late Cretaceous - Eocene) Central Anatolia, Turkey. Yerbilimleri 32(2):151-170 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155381: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallina cf. abundans, Distichoplax biserialis, "Amphiroa cf. propria" = Pseudoamphiroa propria
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
"Amphiroa cf. propria" = Pseudoamphiroa propria Lemoine 1934
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Gypsina linearis
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
Discocyclina sp.
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
Miscellanea primitiva
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia trochidiformis, Cuvillierina sireli