Kymi Bassin (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.6° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• Basin roughly 3 km by 3 km. Kymi-Aliveri supra-detachment basin.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Naturhistorisches Museum in Wien, Geologisch-Paläontologische Sammlung

Primary reference: F. Bachmayer, N. Symeonidis, and D. Theodoropoulos. 1971. Einige Insektenreste as den Jungtertiären Süsswasserablagerungen von Kumi (Insel Euboea, Griechenland). Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 23:165-174 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130761: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 13.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Geotrupidae
Geotrupes sp.
Geotrupes sp. Latreille 1796 earth-boring dung beetle
NHMW 1880/C846
 Hymenoptera - Halictidae
? Halictus sp.
? Halictus sp. Latreille 1804 sweat bee
Geologischen Institutes der Technischen Hochschule in Athen 152
 Odonata -
Calopterygoidea indet.
Calopterygoidea indet. Selys-Longchamps 1850 damselfly
NHMW 1880/C848
 Diptera - Bibionidae
"Penthetria marinosi n. sp." = Penthetria fuchsi
"Penthetria marinosi n. sp." = Penthetria fuchsi Handlirsch 1907 march fly
NHMW 1878/XX, 100