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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Hellenocyclina beotica Reichel 1949 | |
Marssonella oxycona Reuss 1860 | |
Textulariidae sp. Ehrenberg 1838 | |
Selimina spinalis Inan 1996
Siderolites calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801 | |
Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Pseudosiderolites vidali Douville 1907
Sulcoperculina vermunti Thiadens 1937
Sirtina orbitoidiformis Broennimann and Wirz 1962 | |
Orbitoides gruenbachensis Papp 1955
Orbitoides apiculatus Schlumberger 1902
Postomphalocyclus sp. Inan 1992
Omphalocyclus macroporus Lamarck 1816 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globotruncana sp. Cushman 1927 | |
unclassified | |
Coelenterata indet. Hatschek 1888 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites
"Cyclolites sp." = Cunnolites Gagnebin 1772 stony coral | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Curvichnus semorbis Nielsen 2002
Maeandropolydora osmaneliensis Nielsen and Gormus 2004 |