GECO-79, SE Rhodes (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (35.8° N, 27.9° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 27.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Late Pleistocene-Holocene?

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified rudstone and unlithified sandstone

• Madrepora-Lophelia rudstone with mudstone to grainstone matrix, Lophelia-Madrepora rubble embedded in silty to very fine sandy sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. Taviani, A. Vertino, M. Lopez Correa, A. Savini, B. De Mol, A. Remia, P. Montagna, L. Angeletti, H. Zibrowius, T. Alves, M. Salomidi, B. Ritt, and P. Henry. 2011. Pleistocene to recent scleractinian deep-water corals and coral facies in the eastern Mediterranean. Facies 57:579-603 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124237: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Desmophyllum dianthus
Desmophyllum dianthus Esper 1794 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Stenocyathus vermiformis, Guynia annulata
Stenocyathus vermiformis Pourtales 1868 stony coral
Guynia annulata Duncan 1872 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora oculata
Madrepora oculata Linnaeus 1758 stony coral