Platform carbonates bearing shallow water foraminifera and dasycladale assemblages with an Albian stratigraphic significance, crop out at two localities on the Karaburun Peninsula: Barbaros and Zeytineli. Rudist faunas collected from these localities include Toucasia seunesi Douvillé, Pseudotoucasia catalaunica Astre, Mathesia darderi (Astre), Petalodontia ? sp., and Eoradiolites sp. aff. murgensis. | Albian rudist fauna from the Karaburun peninsula, Izmir region, Western Turkey
