2 km ESE of Degirmenlik, Akseki region, western Taurus (Jurassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.3° N, 31.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.7° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Akkuyu Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• age based on ammonites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, fine-grained limestone

• The Akkuyu Fm. consists of finely stratified mudstones containing a pelagic marine fauna of the Upper Jurassic age. Both the thickness and the color changes, from 200m of white, marly limestones to less than 40 m of black bituminous shales. 2 km ESE of Degirmenlik the black facies dominates, although the fauna is mainly pelagic. Occurence in a fine-grained limestone.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. L. Forey, O. Monod, and C. Patterson. 1985. Fishes from the Akkuyu Formation (Tithonian), western Taurus, Turkey. Geobios 18(2):195-201 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68640: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.02.2007

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fishes
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
cf. Undina sp.
cf. Undina sp. Munster 1834 coelacanth
coelacanthid coelacanth, cf. Undina
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Ammonoidea indet.
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite
ammonits, aptychi
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Aulacomyellidae
Aulacomyella sp.
Aulacomyella sp. Furlani 1910 oyster
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
plants