GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, vol.152, no.2, pp.298-315, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
Lower Devonian ostracods from the Istanbul area, Western Pontides (NW Turkey): Gondwanan and peri-Gondwanan affinities
By:Olempska, E (Olempska, Ewa)[ 1 ] ; Nazik, A (Nazik, Atike)[ 2 ] ; Capkinoglu, S (Capkinoglu, Senol)[ 3 ] ; Saydam-Demiray, DG (Saydam-Demiray, Dilek Gulnur)[ 4 ]
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Volume: 152
Issue: 2
Pages: 298-315
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756814000296
Published: MAR 2015
JCR® Category | Quartile in Category |
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GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | Q2 |
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Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 32 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK, NY 10013-2473 USA
ISSN: 0016-7568
eISSN: 1469-5081
Research Domain Geology
Abstract
A Lower Devonian silicified ostracod fauna has been recovered from limestone interbeds in the Buyukdere section of the Kozyatagi Member of the Pendik Formation. Forty-one species belonging to 33 genera have been recognized. Twenty-three are already known, and 15 are described in open nomenclature. One genus and three species (Omerliella rectangulata gen. et sp. nov., Microcheilinella istanbulensis sp. nov. and Roundyella goekchenae sp. nov.) are described. Silicified larval stages of trilobites, agglutinated foraminifers and conodonts co-occur with the ostracods. The ostracod assemblages are `mixed faunas', between the epineritic Eifelian Mega-Assemblage, representative of high-energy environments, and the basinal Thuringian Mega-Assemblage, representative of lowenergy environments. The conodont faunas of the Pendik Formation represent the serotinus, patulus and partitus biozones of the late Emsian -earliest Eifelian. The Emsian ostracods of NW Turkey show numerous species-level links between the Western Pontides (Istanbul Terrane) and assemblages of contemporaneous faunas of the Cantabrian Mountains (Spain), Morocco and Thuringia (Germany), and of similar biofacies. This supports the notion that the Istanbul Terrane, Armorican terrane-collage and northern margins of Gondwana were in geographical proximity in late Early Devonian time.
Keywords
Author Keywords:Early Devonian; Ostracoda; Istanbul Terrane; Turkey; palaeogeography; palaeoecology
KeyWords Plus:PALEOZOIC EVOLUTION; NORTHERN TURKEY; TERRANES; VARISCAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; MOUNTAINS; GEOGRAPHY; SUTURES