Dhionisos, Boeotia (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.5° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Age given as Santonian-Campanian, most likely Santonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• marly-arenaceous limestones and marls, rudist coquinas, thick-bedded limestones

Size class: macrofossils

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64274: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae