Agapi village (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.1° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 20.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; marl and sandstone

• marly brackish water

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Harzhauser and T. Kowalke. 2001. Early Miocene brackish-water Mollusca from the Eastern Mediterranean and from the Central Paratethys - a faunistic and ecological comparison by selected faunas. Journal of the Czech Geological Society 46(3/4):353-374 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172003: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 24.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae
Melanopsis impressa Krauss 1852 snail
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamididae indet., "Potamides (Ptychopotamides) papaveraceus" = Ptychopotamides papaveraceus, "Tympanotonos margaritaceus" = Mesohalina margaritaceus, Terebralia bidentata
Potamididae indet. Adams and Adams 1854 horn snail
"Potamides (Ptychopotamides) papaveraceus" = Ptychopotamides papaveraceus Basterot 1925 horn snail
"Tympanotonos margaritaceus" = Mesohalina margaritaceus Brocchi 1814 horn snail
Terebralia bidentata Defrance 1832 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium calculosum Basterot 1825 cerith snail
Agapibittium greveniense Harzhauser and Kowalke 2001 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Sorbeoconcha -
Greveniella mesohellenica Harzhauser and Kowalke 2001 snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Cymia hellenica murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Melongena lainei Basterot 1825 snail
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
? Theodoxus grateloupianus Férussac 1823 snail
Agapilia picta Férussac 1825 snail
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Heterostropha -
Anomalorbis sp. Paul 1991 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Polymesoda subarata Bronn 1837 clam
spp. sowerbii