Bürnük locality, Inaltı Fm, Calcistella jachenhausenensis zone (Jurassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (41.6° N, 34.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 41.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calcistella jachenhausenensis zone, Inaltı Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; reef rocks

• outer platform material made up of reef, fore-reef, and slope facies

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Y. Kaya and D. Altıner. 2015. Microencrusters from the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous İnaltı Formation (Central Pontides, Turkey): remarks on the development of reefal/peri-reefal facies. Facies 61(18) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173370: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.09.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lithocodium aggregatum
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Zhelestidae
Polychaeta
 Terebellomorpha -
Radiomura
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Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Calcarea
 Aspiculata -
Sarsteinia babai Schlagintweit and Gawlick 2006 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Chondrosida - Chondrillidae
Perturbatacrusta leini
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Perturbatacrusta leini Schlagintweit and Gawlick 2011
Pseudorothpletzella schmidi
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Pseudorothpletzella schmidi Schlagintweit and Gawlick 2007
Wetheredellidae
  - Wetheredellidae
Koskinobullina socialis Cherchi and Schroeder 1979
Crescentiella morronensis
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