Loc. 4K, Kavasi Hill near Ayia Marina (Miocene of Cyprus)
Where: Cyprus (35.1° N, 33.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 32.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Koronia Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• Idalian series
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
• white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1935. Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(85):1-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71888: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2007
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Taxonomic list
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Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella subangulata turret shell
Turritella turris Basterot 1825 turret shell | |
Fissurella sp. Bruguière 1789 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Aequipecten) cf. northamptoni" = Aequipecten
"Pecten (Aequipecten) cf. northamptoni" = Aequipecten scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Arca (Fossularca) lactea Linnaeus 1767 ark | |
"Pectunculus inflatus" = Glycymeris
"Pectunculus inflatus" = Glycymeris clam | |
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis
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