Gumushane-merkez (Jurassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.4° N, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 31.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Senkoy Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Based on Voros 2011

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray packstone

• gray packstone (based on Voros 2011)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Repository: Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitiisii (Ankara)

Primary reference: D. V. Ager. 1959. Lower Jurassic Brachiopods From Turkey. Journal of Paleontology 33(6):1018-1028 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159015: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.07.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Homoeorhynchia acuta Sowerby 1816
Piarorhynchia juvenis Quenstedt 1852
Cuneirhynchia dalmasi Dumortier 1869
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Cirpa kiragliae Ager 1959
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria quadrifida Lamarck 1819
Zeilleria lycetti Davidson 1851
Zeilleria subdigona Oppel 1853
"Zeilleria indentata" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) indentata Sowerby 1824