Dagpazari reef, Pirinç section, Coral pillarstone facies (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.8° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 33.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mut Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Lower Langhian

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; massive carbonate

• Branching and phaceloid coral colonies in life position.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Vescogni, F. R. Bosellini, A. Cipriani, G. Gürler, A. Ilgar and E. Paganelli. 2014. The Dağpazarı carbonate platform (Mut Basin, Southern Turkey): Facies and environmental reconstruction of a coral reef system during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410:213-232 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166093: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Caulastrea sp. Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Amphistegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Borelis sp. Montfort 1808
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Mastophoroideae indet. Setchell 1943
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithales indet. Le Gall et al. 2010
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Melobesioideae indet. Bizzozero 1885