Doutsiko II, Mesohellenic Basin (Oligocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.1° N, 21.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eptachorion Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; brown, green marl and sandstone

• Associated gastropods indicate a lagoonal setting with the occurrence of seagrass.
• The coral layer follows above green to brown marls with thin sandstone intercalations...Acropora branches are enclosed in a marly matrix forming rudstone..

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: F. Schuster. 2002. Oligocene scleractinian corals from Doutsiko (Mesohellenic Basin, northwestern Greece). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 239:83-127 [W. Kiessling/A. Girndt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Antje Girndt on 17.03.2008, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus (Dilatilabrum) roegli Harzhauser 2001 true conch
10 shells
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora conferta Reuss 1868 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
2
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea hamedanii Schuster 2002 stony coral
Antiguastrea lucasiana Defrance 1826 stony coral
Favites oligocenica Chevalier 1955 stony coral
Leptoria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Leptoria bithecata n. sp. Schuster 2002 stony coral
Hydnophora pulchra Michelotti 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Pavona bronni Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia gregaria Catullo 1852 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Montastraea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral