Kozani (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.3° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nea Nikopolis Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

• The original aragonite skeletal substance was altered to calcite.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Löser. 2010. Revision of the Early Cretaceous coral genus Felixigyra. Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 116(2):189-200 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138823: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Aulastraeoporidae
Aulastraeopora harrisi Wells 1932 stony coral
Aulastraeopora schnauzeae Loeser 1998 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Felixigyra deangelisi Prever 1909 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Life -