TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, vol.20, no.2, pp.167-178, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
Entomozoacean ostracods (pelagic so-called fingerprint-ostracods) have recently been observed for the first time in Upper Devonian sediments of the Darlik B Section from the Istanbul region, north-western Turkey. These new assemblages consist of Entomoprimitia nitida, Entomoprimitia sartenaeri, Entomoprimitia concentrica, Franklinella calcarata, Waldeckella erecta?, Rabienella n. sp. c, aff. reichi sensu Rabien & Rabitz 1958, Rabienella reichi, Richterina (Volkina) zimmermanni and Nehdentomis pseudorichterina and can be dated as Late Frasnian Entomoprimitia sartenaeri Zone (= variostriata Zone sensu Rabien 1954).