Kabaalan (Eocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (39.6° N, 31.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 29.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Cuisian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl and lithified limestone

• brackish water conditions
• alternating of sandy marls and limestones, flysch

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: L. Erünal. 1942. Faune Paleocene de la region de Sivrihisar-Polatli. Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü mecmuasi 2(27):126-132 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99607: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
"Pyrazus pyramidatus" = Jponsia geslini, Faunus (Pseudobellardia) sp.
"Pyrazus pyramidatus" = Jponsia geslini Deshayes 1833 snail
Faunus (Pseudobellardia) sp. Montfort 1810 snail
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides (Tylochilus) sp., Terebralia bouryi
Potamides (Tylochilus) sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
Terebralia bouryi horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Tympanotonus gradatus" = Cerithium (Tympanotonus)
"Tympanotonus gradatus" = Cerithium (Tympanotonus) cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Scaliolidae
Sandbergeria cf. regularis