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Marine Micro And Macro Faunas Of Holocene Deposits Of Anadolu Hi̇sari (Anatolian Castle, Bosphorus) And The Presence Of Xantho Poressa (Olivi) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthidae), Engin Meri̇ç, Hüsamettin Balkis, Niyazi Avşar, Atike Nazi̇k, Feyza Di̇nçer
Marine Micro And Macro Faunas Of Holocene Deposits Of Anadolu Hi̇sari (Anatolian Castle, Bosphorus) And The Presence Of Xantho Poressa (Olivi) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthidae), Engin Meri̇ç, Hüsamettin Balkis, Niyazi Avşar, Atike Nazi̇k, Feyza Di̇nçer
Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration
The presence of Xantho poressa (Olivi), known as the recent fossil, from Crustacea- Decapoda in Holocene deposits of Anadolu Hisarı has been revealed inthis study. This crab species is known as ranging from Mediterranean Sea to Black Sea and from Canary Islands to Portugal in Northeast Atlantic within depths of 0-15 meters in tidal and shallow subtidal environments. Remnants of broken crab shells with benthic foraminifera, ostracoda, bryozoan, pelecypoda and gastropoda were found in 78 samples which were collected from different levels of 8 of the cores taken from the basement of Küçüksu Palace at the Anadolu Hisarı. It was …