Kargi section 33 meters, Aksu sub-basin (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.3° N, 30.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 30.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: M11 foram zone, Aksucay Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• LowerTortonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Islamoglu and G. Taner. 2002. Antalya Miyosen havzasının Gastropoda faunası (Batı-Orta Toroslar, GB Türkiye). Maden Tetkik ve Arama Dergisi 127:29-65 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179778: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium appenninicum cerith snail
Cerithium appenninicum dertosulcata
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella bicarinata Elchwald 1830 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora deshayesi Michelotti 1847 carrier shell
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Subula plicaria" = Terebra
"Subula plicaria" = Terebra auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus (Conolithus) dujardini, "Conus (Chelyconus) fuscocingulatus" = Conus (Chelyoconus)
Conus (Conolithus) dujardini Deshayes 1845 cone shell
"Conus (Chelyconus) fuscocingulatus" = Conus (Chelyoconus) cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Athleta ficulina Lamarck 1811 volute
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hinia (Uzita) porrecta" = Nassarius (Uzita)
"Hinia (Uzita) porrecta" = Nassarius (Uzita) snail
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Galeodes cornutus Agassiz 1843 snail
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Strombus coronatus" = Persististrombus coronatus, "Strombus (Strombus) bonellii" = Persististrombus bonellii
"Strombus coronatus" = Persististrombus coronatus Defrance 1827 true conch
Strombus coronatus compressonana
"Strombus (Strombus) bonellii" = Persististrombus bonellii Brongniart 1823 true conch