Loc. 10K, Koroni-Trimythos Hill (Miocene of Cyprus)

Where: Cyprus (35.0° 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 71895: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Camarodonta - Echinidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus (Timoclea) ovata" = Timoclea ovata
"Venus (Timoclea) ovata" = Timoclea ovata Pennant 1777 venus clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) tauroperstriatus" = Chlamys
"Pecten (Chlamys) tauroperstriatus" = Chlamys scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Lithophagus lithophaga" = Modiola (Lithophagus)
"Lithophagus lithophaga" = Modiola (Lithophagus) mussel
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail