Paleokastron Hill, Boeotia (Cretaceous to of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.5° N, 22.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 20.1° N, 25.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments and lithified limestone

• lithoclastic calcareous arenites, followed by olistostromes with blocks and pebbles of serpentinized basic volcanics, radiolarites and pisolithic laterites, thick-bedded bioclastic limestones in the upper part

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 64293: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Vaccinites boehmi, Vaccinites inaequicostatus, Vaccinites praesulcatus, Vaccinites aff. cornuvaccinum, Vaccinites giganteus, Vaccinites salopeki, Vaccinites sp., Vaccinites sulcatus, Vaccinites vredenburgi, Hippurites cf. canaliculatus, Hippurites colliciatus
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist
Vaccinites sulcatus Defrance 1821 rudist
Vaccinites vredenburgi Kuehn 1932 rudist
Hippurites colliciatus Woodward 1855 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina bayani
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites angeiodes
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Ellipsocoenia sp., Fungiastraea cf. conferta
Ellipsocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Fungiastraea cf. conferta Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
listed as Fungiastrea
 Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Agathelia cf. asperella
Agathelia cf. asperella Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Adelocoenia sp.
? Adelocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Phyllocoenia sp." = Montastraea
"Phyllocoenia sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Pachygyra bellula
Pachygyra bellula stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Mycetophyllopsis antiqua" = Meandrastrea antiqua, Dimorphocoenia sp.
"Mycetophyllopsis antiqua" = Meandrastrea antiqua Reuss 1854 stony coral
Dimorphocoenia sp. de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea sp.
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides sp.
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
Pseudosiderolites sp.