Loc. 3K, Kotaphi Hill near Agrokipia (Miocene of Cyprus)

Where: Cyprus (35.0° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 32.7° 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 71887: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail