Porto Vromi, Zakynthos Island (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (37.8° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• toe of slope of the Apulian carbonate platform
• in the blocks and in the matrix of megabreccias

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber, M. Parente, M. Hagmaier, A. Immenhauser, B. Kooij and G. Frijia. 2007. Latest Maastrichtian species-rich rudist associations of the Apulian margin of Salento (S Italy) and the Ionian Islands (Greece). In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:151-157 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84731: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Pironaea polystyla
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Pseudopolyconites sp., ? Pseudosabinia sp.
Pseudopolyconites sp. Milovanovic 1935 rudist
? Pseudosabinia sp. Morris and Skelton 1995 rudist