Late Visean-Early Namurian bivalves from the Zonguldak coal basin, Northwestern Turkey

Okan Y., Hosgor I.

TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, vol.16, no.2, pp.225-240, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 16 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.225-240
  • Keywords: bivalvia, Septimyalina, Posidonia, Early Carboniferous, Zonguldak, Turkey, PALEOECOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Marine bivalves Septimyalina sublamellosa( Etheridge 1878), Septimyalina lamellosa( de Koninck 1842), Septimyalina minor ( Brown 1841) and Posidonia becheri Bronn, 1828 are described from the Visean-Namurian transition of Zonguldak coal basin, Northwestern Turkey. Macroinvertebrate fossils are rare in the Lower Carboniferous of the Zonguldak coal basin and only a few shallow marine forms of Myalinidae and Posidoniidae families are present. Their palaeobiogeographic distribution delineates a seaway from Britain to the Black Sea coast during the Carboniferous.