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Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy and trilobites, Taurus Mountains near Kemer, southwestern Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

W. T. DEAN ,
T. T. UYENO  and
R. B. RICKARDS
W. T. DEAN
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Wales Cardiff, P.O. Box 914, Cardiff, UK and Department of Geology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff CF1 3NP, UK
T. T. UYENO
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 3303–33rd Street NW, Calgary, Alberta T2L 2A7, Canada
R. B. RICKARDS
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
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Abstract

Lower Palaeozoic outcrops near Kemer comprise only Ordovician and Silurian strata in the Upper Antalya Nappes, and are described in detail for the first time. The oldest rocks, Seydişehir Formation (lower Arenig), resemble those of the central Taurides. A disconformity is probable, though unexposed, below the succeeding Şort Tepe Formation (Ashgill), a unit seen elsewhere only in south central and southeastern Turkey; sparse trilobites include Cyclopyge, Cyphoniscus, Panderia, Symphysops, Ulugtella, and one new species Placoparia (Hawleia) marcouxi. Silurian rocks (Sapandere Formation) differ from those further east in the Taurides, and are of Llandovery (Telychian), Wenlock and ?Ludlow age, based on conodonts, graptolites and trilobites (Cerauroides, Otarion (Aulacopleura), Sphaerexochus) the affinities of which lie with the Carnic Alps and western Europe. The Sapandere Formation is unconformably overlain by red sandstones at the base of the Armutlugözlek Formation (Devonian).

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 136 , Issue 4 , July 1999 , pp. 373 - 393
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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