Chironaea, Livadia, Greece (Cretaceous of Greece)

Also known as Reef 3141

Where: Boeotia, Greece (38.5° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 20.4° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• Age determination based on rudists only

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or biohermlithified

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Primary reference: F. Klinghardt. 1943. Das geologische Alter des großen Rudistenriffes vom "Hönerberg" bei Chironäa unweit Livadia in Böotien (Griechenland). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 95(3-4):121-132 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12837: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.12.2001

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Taxonomic list

• Rudist identifications problematic
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
Foraminifera
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Lithodomus cf. alpinus" = Lithophagus alpinus
"Lithodomus cf. alpinus" = Lithophagus alpinus Zittel 1866 mussel
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail