A preliminary account on Devonian trilobites from Arabian Plate, SE Turkey

Authors

CATHERINE CRONIER
İZZET HOŞGÖR

DOI

10.55730/1300-0985.1814

Abstract

Recently, several Devonian localities and the related biota occurring from the southeastern Turkey were reinvestigated. Although, the Hakkari-Çukurca and the Diyarbakır-Hazro areas of the Arabian Plate are considered as an important source of the Devonian macrofossils from the north Arabian sector of Gondwana, the existing record of Devonian trilobites in these regions was hitherto unknown. We here report and illustrate for the first time Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites represented by three proetid pygidia and one calymenid pygidium. The morphological features of these pygidia suggest that they can be assigned to undetermined species of Gravicalymene (Calymenidae) and Podoliproetus (Proetidae), two genera known in the Lochkovian; and Pseudodechenella (Proetidae), a genus known in the Givetian.

Keywords

Southeastern Turkey, trilobites, Devonian (Lochkovian, Givetian), Arabian Plate

First Page

467

Last Page

479

Recommended Citation

CRONIER, CATHERINE and HOŞGÖR, İZZET (2022) "A preliminary account on Devonian trilobites from Arabian Plate, SE Turkey," Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences: Vol. 31: No. 5, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1814
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/vol31/iss5/4