Nea Nikopoli, section C, Bed C9 (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.3° N, 21.7° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• calcareous deposits are dominated by packstone and floatstone with abundant bioclasts

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Löser, T. Steuber, and C. Löser. 2018. Early Cenomanian coral faunas from Nea Nikopoli (Kozani, Greece; Cretaceous). 18(3) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204531: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Parnassomeandra steuberi Loeser 2013 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cryptocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Cryptocoenia cf. miyakoensis Eguchi 1936 stony coral