NE Evvoia Island, Xiron Formation (Jurassic to of Greece)

Also known as Reef 2822

Where: Greece (38.9° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 23.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: "Cladocoropsis Limestone" Member (Xiron Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• up to 20 m thick reef debris limestones intercalated in nodular chert limestones; composed of rudaceous reefal components and lithoclasts derived from framestones; intergranular pores occluded by organic crusts, fibrous cement and silty-micritic sediment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: R. Scherreiks. 2000. Platform margin and oceanic sedimentation in a divergent and convergent plate setting (Jurassic, Pelagonian Zone, NE Evvoia, Greece). International Journal of Earth Sciences 89:90-107 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68163: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Milleporidium sp. Steinmann 1903 stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Parastromatopora sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 demosponge
 Agelasida - Actinostromariidae
Actinostromaria tokadiensis Yabe and Sugiyama 1935 demosponge
 Agelasida - Actinostromarianinidae
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
Cladocoropsis mirabilis Felix 1907 demosponge
 Thaumatoporellales -
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Foraminifera
  -
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Spirocyclinidae