Loc. 6K, Ayii Eliophoti (Miocene of Cyprus)

Where: Cyprus (35.1° N, 33.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Koronia Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Idalian series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. R. C. Reed. 1935. Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(85):1-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71889: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp.
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Nassa sp.
? Nassa sp. Röding 1798 true whelk
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp.
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp.
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita aculeata, Cardita koroniensis n. sp.
Cardita aculeata clam
var. eliophotes
Cardita koroniensis n. sp. clam