GECO-8, W Crete (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (35.6° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 23.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified framestone

• hardground between 500 and 1500 m
• Neopycnodonte-Desmophyllum framestone, micritic silty mudstone matrix

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: M. Taviani, A. Vertino, M. Lopez Correa, A. Savini, B. De Mol, A. Remia, P. Montagna, L. Angeletti, H. Zibrowius, T. Alves, M. Salomidi, B. Ritt, and P. Henry. 2011. Pleistocene to recent scleractinian deep-water corals and coral facies in the eastern Mediterranean. Facies 57:579-603 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124208: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Desmophyllum dianthus Esper 1794 stony coral
Ceratotrochus magnaghii Cecchini 1914 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Guyniidae
Stenocyathus vermiformis Pourtales 1868 stony coral