Hydra reef, mud limestone facies, Greece (Triassic of Greece)

Where: Greece (37.3° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 22.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: "Pantokrator limestone" Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• micritic gray limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: P. Schäfer and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1982. The Upper Triassic Pantokrator Limestone of Hydra (Greece): An Example of a Prograding Reef Complex. Facies 6:147-164 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38017: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 31.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium sp. Yabe and Toyama 1928
 Thaumatoporellales -
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Conodonta
  -
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae