Early Pliocene molluscs from the easternmost Mediterranean region (SE Turkey): biostratigraphic, ecostratigraphic, and palaeobiogeographic implications

Yeşim BÜYÜKMERİÇ; Erdoğan TEKİN; Erdal İbrahim HERECE; Koray SÖZERİ; Nihal AKCA; Baki Erdoğan VAROL

Makale detayları

Early Pliocene molluscs from the easternmost Mediterranean region (SE Turkey): biostratigraphic, ecostratigraphic, and palaeobiogeographic implications

Yazarlar:

Yeşim BÜYÜKMERİÇ | Erdoğan TEKİN | Erdal İbrahim HERECE | Koray SÖZERİ | Nihal AKCA | Baki Erdoğan VAROL

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Ana Başlıklar:

Uygulamalı fizik

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 2018 Vol.27 Issue 2, pp.127-151

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000731178

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-619X

pISSN:

1300-0985

Özet:

 


The mollusc faunas from Pliocene deposits of the Hatay-İskenderun region
 were investigated at nine localities and complemented with three 
localities from earlier studies. The Pliocene units were deposited in 
three adjacent subbasins, Hatay-Samandağ (HS), Altınözü-Babatorun (AB), 
and İskenderun-Arsuz (İA); the first two are also known as the Hatay 
Graben. Basin configurations and shape, environmental evolution, and 
faunal compositions were affected by differential tectonic histories 
since the Late Miocene. In total 162 species (94 gastropod, 61 bivalve, 
and 7 scaphopod) are recorded, 80 of which are recorded for the first 
time from the region. The occurrence of tropical stenohaline benthic 
taxa (such as Persististrombus coronatus and some conid gastropod 
species) and a number of chronostratigraphically well-constrained 
mollusc species shows a Zanclean age. The base of the Early Pliocene is 
also shown by the occurrence of planktic foraminifer assemblages 
corresponding to MPL1 and MPL2 biozones and the nannoplankton 
Amaurolithus delicatus assemblage. The Early Pliocene Hatay molluscan 
assemblages allow for palaeobiogeographic comparisons across the 
Mediterranean. The Pliocene marine fossiliferous deposits are assigned 
to the Mediterranean Pliocene Molluscan Unit 1 (MPMU1) of the western 
Mediterranean and Atlantic regions. However, the eastern Mediterranean 
assemblages are notably poorer in species and in particular a number of 
thermophilic groups are lacking. This marine biodiversity gradient has 
been a characteristic feature of the Mediterranean ever since the 
Pliocene.
                    

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Makale detayları

Early Pliocene molluscs from the easternmost Mediterranean region (SE Turkey): biostratigraphic, ecostratigraphic, and palaeobiogeographic implications

Yazarlar: Yeşim BÜYÜKMERİÇ | Erdoğan TEKİN | Erdal İbrahim HERECE | Koray SÖZERİ | Nihal AKCA | Baki Erdoğan VAROL

Yayıncı: TUBITAK

Ana Başlıklar: Uygulamalı fizik

Dergi: Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 2018 Vol.27 Issue 2, pp.127-151

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000731178

Sıklık: İki Aylık

eISSN: 1303-619X

pISSN: 1300-0985

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Yeşim BÜYÜKMERİÇ | Erdoğan TEKİN | Erdal İbrahim HERECE | Koray SÖZERİ | Nihal AKCA | Baki Erdoğan VAROL

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Ana Başlıklar:

Uygulamalı fizik

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 2018 Vol.27 Issue 2, pp.127-151

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000731178

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-619X

pISSN:

1300-0985