Loc. 1, Hill near Pakhna (Miocene of Cyprus)

Where: Cyprus (34.8° N, 32.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 32.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pakhna Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Idalian series. Reed (1930) felt that "all these species point to the Langhian or Helvetian

•age of the beds of the Second Mediterranean Stage (Vindobonian of Deperet)." According to Eaton (1987): "Haskett (1984) studied outcrops on the road section to Pakhna from the T-junction on the Omhodos-Limassol route. An N9 age is attributed to the sediments at the base of the section, younging up the scarp toward Pakhna, with an age equivalent to N13 inferred from the absence of Globorotalia praemenardii and the presence of highly evolved Globigerina druryi.". The fossiliferous bed is a 25 foot-thick interval at the top of Reed (1930)'s measured section, suggesting a Serravallian age is the most likely.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified lime mudstone

• Corresponds to either the basin-plain or basin-margin lithofacies of Eaton (1987).
• Tough, white chalky limestones 6 in.-1 ft. in thickness containing oysters and Aturia aturi alternating with layers 1-1.5 ft. in thickness of soft buff sandy shales.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1935. Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(85):1-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71874: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia aturi Basterot 1825 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Capulus hungaricus Linnaeus 1758 snail
var. punctata
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Liostrea (Pycnodonta) cochlear" = Neopycnodonta cochlear
"Liostrea (Pycnodonta) cochlear" = Neopycnodonta cochlear Poli 1795 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Lucina (Pleurolucina) miobarbieri" = Linga (Pleurolucina)
"Lucina (Pleurolucina) miobarbieri" = Linga (Pleurolucina) clam
var. colligens
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula cf. laevigata" = Leionucula laevigata, Nucula sp.
"Nucula cf. laevigata" = Leionucula laevigata Sowerby 1818 nut clam
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam