Değirmençay locality, Mersin, Kaplankaya Fm, log 2, third reef level (Miocene to of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (36.9° N, 34.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 34.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kaplankaya Formation, Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; claystone

• start from a claystone layer of the third reef level

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Darbas and M. Gül. 2019. Ostracoda and Foraminifera assemblages of the Lower-Middle Miocene reefal carbonates within the Değirmençay Area, NW Mersin/S Turkey. Çukurova University Journal of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture 34(1):91-102 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206196: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globoquadrina dehiscens Chapman et al. 1934
Orbulina universa d'Orbigny 1839
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Hemicyprideis villandrautensis Moyes 1965 ostracod
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Ruggieria tetraptera Seguenza 1880 ostracod
Ruggieria tetraptera tetraptera
 Podocopida - Schizocytheridae
Neomonoceratina mouliana Sissingh 1972 ostracod
 Podocopida -
Thalmannia hodgii Brady 1866 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris polita Sars 1866 ostracod