Late Devonian and early Carboniferous microfloras from the Hakkarı Province of southeastern Turkey

Reconsidering the Variscan Basement of Southern Tuscany (Inner Northern Apennines)

“…Analogous palynoflora also occurs in the Tournaisian-early Visean of Saudi Arabia [95,96] and the Central Iranian Basin [97]. In Southeastern Turkey, [98] tentatively correlated the Spelaeotriletes pretiosus-Aratrisporites saharensis assemblage, where Vallatisporites hystricosus also occurs, with the PC biozone of Western Europe. In Western Gondwana regions, a similar assemblage also characterizes the late middle to early late Tournaisian Spelaeotriletes pretiosus-Colatisporites decorus Biozone documented from Brazil [99][100][101][102][103][104][105].…”

A new Ordovician eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from southeast Turkey: Evidence for a cryptic Ordovician record of Eurypterida

“…In the Zap Valley, the thick Seydişehir Formation is unconformably overlain by a Lower and Upper Palaeozoic succession that comprises the Upper Ordovician Şort Tepe Formation, the Upper Devonian Yıgınlı Formation and the Lower Carboniferous Köprülü Formation ( Fig. 2A) (Higgs et al, 2002). It is in the Şort Tepe beds of this succession, on the northeast side of the Zap Valley 7.5 km northwest of Çukurca (Fig.…”

New record of a Middle Devonian brachiopod fauna from the Northern Arabian Plate, Zap Anticline, Çukurca-Hakkari, Southeastern Turkey

“…The top of the Yýðýnlý Formation was dated as Uppermost Devonian (Famennian), an age that was confirmed by the study of microflora (Higgs et al 2002). In the latter study, two samples (respectively Zap 1 and Zap 2) were collected below the level yielding vertebrate remains and are possibly contemporaneous of our brachiopod fauna; they were dated as Famennian, with two identified palynomorph assemblages.…”

“…Echinoderms of similar age have been recently reported from the Șort Dere section (Webster & Hoșgör, submitted), located southeastern of the Köprülü section. So far, Devonian sequences were characterized by miospore taxa indicating a Famennian age and fish remains suggesting a Strunian age for the upper part of the Yýðýnlý Formation (Higgs et al 2002, Janvier et al 1984 and the only mention of the presence of Middle and Upper Devonian brachiopods in SE Turkey concerned the Kayayolu Fm., in the Hazro area, about 200 km northwest of the zone studied here (Tolun 1949, Lebküchner 1976). …”