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New Data on The Stratigraphy The Conodont Faunas of Çaltepe Limestone, Seydişehir Formation Lower Paleozoic of Central Taurus Range

Abstract: Çaltepe Limestone, Seydişehir Formation which are known from Seydişehir area (Northern Central Taurus) crop out also near Hadim, (Konya) through a tectonic fenster. In this latter locality dark colored shales, unknown from Seydişehir area, form the basal part of the sequence. The sequence ther is overturned the shales are seen above Çaltepe Limestone along Göksu valley. Arenigian trilobites were found in Seydişehir Formation in Seydişehir atea (Dean, Monod, 1970). The same formation yielded Upper Cambrian (Hertzina bisulcata, Oneotodus tenuis, Oneotodus gallatini, Acodus cambricus) , Lower Ordovician (Drepanodus homocurvaltus, Drepanodus planus )conodonts,d Acrotretid brachiopoda in Hadim area where these Lower Paleozoic rocks are directly uncomformably overlain by Upper Jurassic-Cretaceous limestones. Lower Paleozoic of Central, Eastern Taurus, of Southeastern Anatolia, of Amanos mountains exhibit very similar stratigraphical, lithological characteristics.