Where: Turkey (37.8° N, 38.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 33.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper Upper Maastrichtian
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. Meric and A. DeVries. 1966. Note sur les affleurements maestrichtiens de la region de Kahta (Turquie). Travaux de l'Institut de Geologie et d'Hanthropologie Prehistorique de la Faculte des Sciences de Poitiers 7:3-13 [L. Villier/L. Villier/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 34587: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 11.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Siderolites calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801 | |
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
Omphalocyclus macroporus Lamarck 1816 | |
Bivalvia | |
Exogyra overweegi oyster
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist | |
Echinoidea | |
Conulus douvillei Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin | |
Pyrina ovulum sea urchin | |
Hemiaster regulusanus d'Orbigny 1854 heart urchin | |
"Holectypus inflatus" = Coenholectypus inflatus
"Holectypus inflatus" = Coenholectypus inflatus Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin |