Where: Turkey (40.8° N, 29.4° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 34.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Nodular Limestone Formation), Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• from the base of the upper member, B. balatonicus zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Fantini Sestini. 1984. Gastropods and bivalves of the Middle Anisian from Kokaeli Peninsula (Turkey). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 90(3):321-330 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78358: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2008

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