USNM9607, Block 8, Agrelias 2, Chios (Permian of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.5° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° S, 28.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gymnocodiacean limestones Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• Loose blocks with silicified brachiopods from top of 10.2 m interval. Likely equivalent to N. craticulifera zone with Verbeekina

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal bindstone

• Algal packstone and coral boundstones (Sinopora)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: R. E. Grant. 1993. Permian brachiopods from Khios Island, Greece. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 67(4):1-21 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 109362: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Meekella megala Grant 1993
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella tapina n. sp. Grant 1993
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia dirata n. sp. Grant 1993
 Productida -
Marginifera ganota Grant 1993
Entacanthadus chioticus n. gen. Grant 1993
 Productida - Richthofeniidae
Seseloidia phlebodes n. gen. Grant 1993
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Kotlaia aethopa Grant 1993