Early Cambrian trace fossils at the northern margin of the Arabian Plate; Telbesmi Formation, Turkey

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2018-01-01

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Demircan, Huriye
GÜRSU, SEMİH
Göncüoğlu, Mehmet Cemal

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The Telbesmi Formation, at the northern margin of the Arabian Plate, Turkey, is composed of alternating dark-brown, pinky-brown fluvial arkosic sandstone/mudstones with thin-bedded cherry limestones and channel conglomerates. The formation contains rare and poorly diversified trace fossils. The siltstone/sandstone beds of levels 1 and 2 of the formation yielded, however, a moderately diverse assemblage composed of: Cochlichnus isp., Palaeophycus isp., Planolites beverleyensis, Teichichnus isp. and ?Treptichnus rectangularis. This assemblage, made up of traces left by deposit feeding organisms, represents the Scoyenia ichnofacies. Treptichnus rectangularis and Palaeophycus isp., of the assemblage, can be considered markers for the base of the Cambrian in southeast Turkey.

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Ichnnofossils, Telbesmi Formation, Early Cambrian, Derik (SE Turkey)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31110

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ACTA GEOLOGICA POLONICA

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https://doi.org/10.1515/agp-2017-0024

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H. Demircan, S. GÜRSU, and M. C. Göncüoğlu, “Early Cambrian trace fossils at the northern margin of the Arabian Plate; Telbesmi Formation, Turkey,” ACTA GEOLOGICA POLONICA, pp. 135–145, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31110.