Late Triassic to Early Jurassic radiolarian, conodont and ammonite assemblages from the Tavuscayiri block, Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey: Time constraints for the T / J boundary and sedimentary evolution of the southern margin of the northern Neotethys
Author
Tekin, Kagan
Author
Krystyn, Leopold
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Okuyucu, Cengiz
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Bedi, Yavuz
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Sayit, Kaan
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Geodiversitas
2020
2020-11-26
42
27
493
537
journal article
8503
10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a27
20141273-3452-4388-b6a8-aab9193c87fe
1638-9395
4447758
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1A437774-B5BE-49F2-8DEF-D46F2790484A
Atalantria
sp. A
(
Fig. 12O
)
OCCURRENCE. — Lower Jurassic, lower Sinemurian of
Mersin
Mélange, NW of
Mersin
city, southern
Turkey
.
DESCRIPTION
Test multicyrtid, increasing in width distally except the last segment. Last segment decreasing in width. Cephalis hemisphaerical, poreless with small, rudimentary, needle-like horn. Thorax to rest of segments, except the last one, subtrapezoidal. Last segment inverse subtrapezoidal in outline. Segments have two transverse rows of pores with hexagonal pore frames.
REMARKS
This specimen differs from
Atalantria emmela
(
Cordey & Carter 1996: 67
, pl. 24, fig. 13) by having a distally constricted test. It can be differentiated also from
Atalantria epaphrodita
(
Cordey & Carter 1996: 446
, pl. 1, figs 6, 7, 10, 11) by having a shorter test and cephalis with unbranched, needle-like horn.