ammonites
Kocayarma locality (Oligocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (38.2° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 27.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; carbonaceous sandstone

• "description" is cryptic and confused (translated article), fossils are from "top-set of a delta sequence"

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Unay and H. de Bruijn. 1987. Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene rodent assemblages from Turkey, a preliminary report. Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen: Reihe A Geologie und Palaontologie 10:203-210 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31606: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 19.05.2003

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