“…Pialliiza tetkydis gen. et sp.nov. occurs in the clayey limestone beds intercalated within mark containing Halobia (H. bifhyiZicU); the sequence is referred by several authors to the Carnian (Assereto, 1972(Assereto, , 1974Ozdemir e f al., 1973;Nicora & Premoli Silva, 1976;Nicora, 1977;Dager, 1977Dager, , 1978a, to the Carnian excluding the Early part (Zaninetti & Dager, 1978) or to the Upper Carnian (Yurttas- Ozdemir, 1971Ozdemir, ,1972Ozdemir, ,1973Gedik, 1975 Consisting of a short early stage in the form of a low trochoid (or streptospiral?) coil; second stage triserial, short, followed by a trochospiral stage, slightly contorted, with an indefinite number of chambers per whorl (probably not more than five) which reduces to three, possibly two, chambers per whorl in the final stage.…”