Akros Massif, radiolitid banks (Cretaceous of Greece)

Also known as Reef 2009

Where: Greece (37.7° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "Formation I"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified bafflestone

• radiolitid banks

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Mermighis, J. Philip, and G. Tronchetti. 1991. Sequences et corteges de depots de plate-forme carbonatee au passage Cenomanien-Turonien dans les Hellenides internes (Peloponnese, Grece) [Carbonate platform sequences and system tracts at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Internal Hellenids (Greece)]. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 162(3):547-552 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74198: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Neoradiolites sp. Milovanovic 1935 rudist
Sauvagesia sp. Bayle 1886 rudist
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprinidae indet. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936