New Early Tuvalian (Carnian, Triassic) Radiolarians From the Huǧlu-Pindos Succession in the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange, Southern Turkey

Three new radiolarian genera (Paramonocapnuchosphaera, Monocoronella and Minicrampus) and eight new species are described herein from one of the diverse and best preserved Carnian (Late Triassic) radiolarian faunas of the world, from the early Tuvalian sequence of the Sorgun Ophiolitic Mélange, Turkey. The radiolarian fauna belongs to the Spongotortilispinus moixi Zone (equivalent to Paragondolella postinclinata - Paragondolella noah Zone). The very similar late Julian-early Tuvalian radiolarian faunas from the Northern Calcareous, Alps through the Lagonegro Basin, Sicily, Island, Greece and farther east in the Antalya nappes, in the Mersin Mélange and in Elbistan, Turkey may confirm that the Pindos-type succession in different units of early Mesozoic oceanic basins formed in a single oceanic basin.