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
Author
Okuyucu, Cengiz
Author
Bedi, Yavuz
Author
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
Tozerium
sp. A
(
Fig. 9S, T
)
OCCURRENCE. — Lower Jurassic, lower Lower Pliensbachian of Orbuklukeli section,
Mersin
Mélange, NW of
Mersin
city, southern
Turkey
.
DESCRIPTION
Cortical shell small, subsphaerical with four strong spines. It composed of small, polygonal pore frames (mainly triangular) with small, circular nodes at pore frame vertices. Primary spines tetrahedrally disposed, strong, tricarinate with prominent ridges and shallow grooves. They are slightly decreasing in width distally and very slightly dextrally twisted.
REMARKS
This taxon differs from
Tozerium orbuklukeliense
Tekin
,
n. sp.
by having tricarinate and slightly dextrally twisted spines instead of needle-like spines.