Kongul Yayla, microbial facies (Carboniferous of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.9° N, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 32.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zindancik Formation, Asbian (339.4 - 336.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• microbial framework of the core of the microbial-sponge-bryozoan-coral biohermal unit

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Denayer. 2012. Corals of the Upper Visean microbial-sponge-bryozoan-coral bioherm and related strata of Kongul Yayla (Taurides, South Turkey). Geologica Belgica 15(4):317-328 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134295: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Axophyllidae
Axophyllum aff. pseudokirsopianum Semenoff-Tian-Chansky 1974 horn coral