Dhionisos, Boeotia (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.5° N, 23.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 21.7° N, 26.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Age given as Santonian-Campanian, most likely Santonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• marly-arenaceous limestones and marls, rudist coquinas, thick-bedded limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber. 1999. Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece. Special Papers in Palaeontology 61:5-229 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64274: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites cornuvaccinum
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Gorjanovicia costata, Gorjanovicia gracilis, Gorjanovicia kayae, Gorjanovicia boeotica, Gorjanovicia lipparinii, Sauvagesia meneghiniana, Sauvagesia tenuicostata, Fossulites aff. undaesaltus, Fossulites dionysii, Medeella cf. zignana, Bournonia africana
Gorjanovicia boeotica Steuber 1994 rudist
Gorjanovicia lipparinii Polsak 1967 rudist
Sauvagesia tenuicostata Polsak 1967 rudist
Fossulites dionysii Steuber 1994 rudist
Medeella cf. zignana Pirona 1869 rudist
Demospongiae
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Blastochaetetes flabellum