Paleokastron Hill, Boeotia: Santonian - Campanian, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides sp.
Lepidorbitoididae
Pseudosiderolites sp. Smout 1955
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Dimorphocoenia sp. de Fromentel 1857
Mycetophyllopsis antiqua (Reuss 1854)
recombined as Meandrastrea antiqua
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Pachygyra bellula
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Phyllocoenia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
synonym of Montastraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Fungiastraea cf. conferta (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
listed as Fungiastrea
Ellipsocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Adelocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia cf. asperella Reuss 1854
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites boehmi
Vaccinites inaequicostatus
Vaccinites praesulcatus
Vaccinites aff. cornuvaccinum
Vaccinites giganteus
Vaccinites salopeki
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887
Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821
Vaccinites vredenburgi Kuehn 1932
Hippurites cf. canaliculatus
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites angeiodes
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina bayani
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 22.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.3° North, 21.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Santonian - Campanian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: lithoclastic calcareous arenites, followed by olistostromes with blocks and pebbles of serpentinized basic volcanics, radiolarites and pisolithic laterites, thick-bedded bioclastic limestones in the upper part
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:64293
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-09-06 01:33:38 Last modified:2006-09-06 04:54:21
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-06 01:33:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18332. T. Steuber. 1999. Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece. Special Papers in Palaeontology 61:5-229 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]