Höbek Tepe, Amasya (Cretaceous of Turkey)

Also known as Reef 1344

Where: Turkey (40.6° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 33.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lokman Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• 7.5 m thick rudist-coral lithosome

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber, C. Yilmaz, and H. Löser. 1998. Growth rates of Early Campanian rudists in a siliciclastic-calcareous setting (Pontid Mts., north-central Turkey). Geobios, Memoire special 22:385-401 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74506: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.08.2007, edited by Andreas Lauchstedt

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
"Meandroria tenella" = Orbignygyra tenella
"Meandroria tenella" = Orbignygyra tenella Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea ramosa Sowerby 1832 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
"Cyclolites undulatus" = Cunnolites polymorphus, "Cyclolites subcircularis" = Cunnolites
"Cyclolites undulatus" = Cunnolites polymorphus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
subsp. fossaenobilis
"Cyclolites subcircularis" = Cunnolites stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Fungiastraea cf. columellaris Hackemesser 1936 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae