Rugose corals across the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in NW Turkey

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Author: Denayer, Julien
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polska Akademia Nauk * Instytut Paleobiologii 2016
• Subjects: Famennian; Hangenberg event; Hastarian; Palaeobiogeography; Rugosa; Strunian; Tournaisian; Turkey; 1911 Palaeontology; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:382043

An uppermost Famennian (Strunian) coral assemblage has been recovered in the middle part of the Yilanli Formation of the Istanbul Zone (Zonguldak and Bartin areas, NW Turkey). In the Bartin area, the studied fossiliferous interval corresponds to a c. 30 m-thick unit of bioclastic to peloidal wackest...