Hydra Island, Eros Limestone (Triassic of Greece)

Also known as Reef 2784

Where: Greece (37.3° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° S, 25.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Eros Limestone Formation, Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Tubiphytes-algal reefs

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. K. Richter. 1999. Hydra - ein geologischer Überblick [Hydra - a geological overview]. Bochumer Geologische und Geotechnische Arbeiten 53:41-106 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73815: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Shamovella
  -
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura
"Tubiphytes obscurus" = Shamovella obscura Maslov 1956
unclassified
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