. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. AND FAUNAS OF THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS 421 Fossils have now been found at several localities, all of which, for the sake of com- pleteness, are shown on the accompanying maps (see Figs. 5, 6). Few places, how- ever, have yielded identifiable faunas and most of the fossils, though locally abundant comprise poorly-preserved asaphid trilobites, dalmanellid brachiopods, gastropods [Lesueurilla sp.) and bivalves {Redonia cf. prisca Thoral). The shales are generally slickensided and almost invariably barren, and virtually all the fossils were
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology. AND FAUNAS OF THE TAURUS MOUNTAINS 421 Fossils have now been found at several localities, all of which, for the sake of com- pleteness, are shown on the accompanying maps (see Figs. 5, 6). Few places, how- ever, have yielded identifiable faunas and most of the fossils, though locally abundant comprise poorly-preserved asaphid trilobites, dalmanellid brachiopods, gastropods [Lesueurilla sp.) and bivalves {Redonia cf. prisca Thoral). The shales are generally slickensided and almost invariably barren, and virtually all the fossils were collected from a peculiar, brown-weathering, sandy limestone facies which occurs only in small, thin lenses within the Fig. 6. Fossil localities in the Seydisehir Formation and Sobova Formation in the Sobova Valley and near Kizilca. For key, see Fig. 2, with the addition of the closely-dotted outcrop, which denotes the Sobova Formation, as in Fig. 5. Geological boundaries by O. Monod. The majority of fossil localities were found west and southwest of Seydisehir, but several occur both at and near the important section to the north of Tarasgi. The latter section (Fig. 7) shows the Seydisehir Shales sensu stricto passing conformably upwards into a group of coarser beds, here termed the Upper Greywackes, some 15 metres thick, which are in turn overlain, apparently conformably, by the Sobova Limestone, described later in this paper. Provisional faunal lists for the Seydisehir Shales (excluding the Sobova Valley outcrop—see later) are as follows :— Locality Locality Locality Locality Locality Locality Trilobites—cheirurid ? gen. et sp. indet., Paramegalaspis ? sp. Brachiopods—Cyrtonotella ? sp., Panderina ? sp. Trilobites—Megistaspis ? sp., Neseuretus sp. Brachiopods— Eodalmanella sp. Megistaspis sp., asaphid gen. et sp. undetermined. Megistaspis sp., asaphid gen. et sp. undetermined. Megistaspis ? sp., Paramegalasp
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