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An insufficiently known bivalve and gastropod assemblage from the Early-Middle Miocene (Tarkhanian-Chokrakian) of northern Sinop Province (Turkey), is analyzed. Environments of the assemblage are reconstructed for the Chokrakian as subtidal, with prevailing lime and sandy bottom and good aeration, and partially well vegetated. Impoverishment of the mollusk biocoenose in this part of the marine basin (only 18 bivalve and 22 gastropod species recorded) compared to other areas, including the closest regions, Bulgaria on the west and Georgia on the east, is emphasized. The relatively low diversity of the fauna is probably connected not only with insufficient collecting, but with special hydrological conditions. A special aspect of the fauna is highlighted by the presence of the bivalve Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus subplicatus (Orb.), which is rare in the Chokrakian.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Goncharova, L.B. Iljina, A.L. Tchepalyga, 2014, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 3, pp. 35–39.
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Goncharova, I.A., Iljina, L.B. & Tchepalyga, A.L. New data on mollusks from the Miocene (Tarkhanian-Chokrakian) of northern Sinop Province, Turkey. Paleontol. J. 48, 249–254 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103011403006X
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