Dagpazari reef, Pirinç section, Rhodolith floatstone 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; floatstone

• Rudstone dominated by chaotically arranged Halimeda plates. Slope, platform top
• Floatstone with irregular to round-shaped rhodoliths.

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 166201: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
unclassified
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Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Foraminifera
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Foraminifera indet. Eichwald 1830