Ulukışla Basin, Ulukışla Fm, Imrahor Log, Back Reef Facies (Paleocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (37.6° N, 35.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 31.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ulukışla Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; wackestone

• 2.7 m thick basalt level that contains iddingisitized olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase, volcanic groundmass and calcite fillings in cracks. The upper part of the log contains 1.5 m thick sandy cream color, medium bedded wackestone and 6.5 m thick wackestone (BR).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Zorlu, S. Inan, and M. Gül, N., M. A. Kurt and M. Alpaslan. 2011. Geological Evolution of the Ulukışla Basin (Late Cretaceous - Eocene) Central Anatolia, Turkey. Yerbilimleri 32(2):151-170 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155377: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Amphiroa cf. propria" = Pseudoamphiroa propria, Distichoplax biserialis, Archaeolithothamnium sp., Amphiroa sp.
"Amphiroa cf. propria" = Pseudoamphiroa propria Lemoine 1934
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
Miscellanea sp.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp.
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Triloculina sp.
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod