Nallihan area (Cretaceous of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.2° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.8° N, 27.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Taraklı Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous sandstone

• Grey-green colored middle layered

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Gormus, H. Demircan, Y. K. Kadioglu, F. Yagmurlu, and M. S. Us. 2019. Microborings as indication of cryptic life modes in the foraminifer Orbitoides: Maastrichtian sediments of the Haymana and Nallıhan districts (Ankara, Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 2019(28) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200056: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.03.2019

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
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 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae sp. Ehrenberg 1838
 Rotaliacea - Calcarinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
Sulcoperculina vermunti Thiadens 1937
Sirtina orbitoidiformis Broennimann and Wirz 1962
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
Globotruncana sp. Cushman 1927
unclassified
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Coelenterata indet. Hatschek 1888
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites Gagnebin 1772 stony coral
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Ichnofossils -
Curvichnus semorbis Nielsen 2002
Maeandropolydora osmaneliensis Nielsen and Gormus 2004