Where: Yerkoy, Turkey (39.5° N, 34.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 32.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yoncali Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• middle-late Cuisian stage

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified sandstone and mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: The material used in this study is housed in the Department of Geological Engineering,Ankara University (AU).

Primary reference: Y. Okan and I. Hosgor. 2009. Early Eocene (middle-late Cuisian) Molluscs Assemblage from the Harpactocarcinid Beds, in the Yoncalı Formation of the Çankırı Basin, Central Anatolia, and Implications for Tethys Paleogeography. Geological Bulletin of Turkey 52(1) [J. Sessa/L. Eccles/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98010: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 15.09.2010, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

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