Where: Mersin, Turkey (36.9° N, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 34.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Killik Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Huglu Unit of the Mersin Ophiolitic Melange, Spongotortilispinus moixi radiolarian zone, Lower Tuvalian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: W. Kozur, P. Moix, and P. Ozsvart. 2007. Characteristic Nassellaria of the lower Tuvalian (Upper Triassic) Spongotortilispinus moixi Zone of the Huğlu Unit in the Mersin Mélange, southeastern Turkey. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles / SVSN 90(3):151-173 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/F. Reichel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80845: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 15.05.2008, edited by Uta Merkel