Tepeköy, Kocaeli Peninsula (Triassic of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.9° N, 29.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 37.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neospathodus cristagalli conodont zone, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: D. Thies. 1982. A neoselachian shark tooth from the Lower Triassic of the Kocaeli (=Bithynian) Peninsula, Turkey. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1982(5):272-278 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120900: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
? Palaeospinax sp. Egerton 1872 elasmobranch