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
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 109368: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Entacanthadus chioticus n. gen.
Entacanthadus chioticus n. gen. Grant 1993 | |
Meekella megala Grant 1993 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Kotlaia aethopa Grant 1993 |