Kahta, Salik, upper Upper Maastrichtian, Turkey (Cretaceous of Turkey)

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

• Well-stratified alternation of marls and limestones

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

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Loftusiidae
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
Orbitoides media d'Archiac 1837
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippurites cornucopiae Defrance 1821 rudist
Echinoidea
 Echinoneoida - Conulidae
Conulus douvillei Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin
 Echinoneoida - Echinoneidae
Pyrina ovulum sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster regulusanus d'Orbigny 1854 heart urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
"Holectypus inflatus" = Coenholectypus inflatus
"Holectypus inflatus" = Coenholectypus inflatus Cotteau and Gauthier 1895 sea urchin