Abstract
The association of ostracods in the coal mining habitats of the province of Afsin–Elbistan was realized in the present study. As a result of the investigation, 37 samples from the area were analyzed and 8 taxa from 5 genera belonging to the families Darwinulidae, Candonidae and Cyprididae were recorded. Identified ostracod taxa Candona parallela pannonica Zalanyi, Candona neglecta Sars, Candona decimai Freels, Pseudocandona marchica Hartwig, Cyclocypris nitida Sieber, Vestalenula cylindrica (Straub), Heterocypris salina (Brady) and Heterocypris sp. point to a shallow, richly vegetated, limnic environment in the Pliocene time. The above-mentioned fauna indicates a warm, maybe subtropical climate because of the presence of Vestalenula. A large number of valves of Candona parallela pannonica Zalanyi within the samples signified a low sedimentation rate and thanatocoenosis, according to the key for the use of ostracods as a palaeoenvironmental indicator.
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