Where: Turkey (37.4° N, 31.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.3° S, 29.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tarasci Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Early Upper Ladinian (archelaus or meginae zone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, black lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 1977

Primary reference: L. Beltan, P. Janvier, O. Monod and F. Westphal. 1979. A new marine fish and placodont reptile fauna of Ladinian age from southwestern Turkey. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1979(5):257-267 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120903: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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