USNM9260, Episkopi, Hydra Island: Wuchiapingian, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Tropidelasma ptomatis n. sp. Grant 1995
12 specimens
5 shells, 4 ventral valves, 3 dorsal valves (6 measurements)
Goniarina subulata n. sp. Grant 1995
900 specimens
~100 shells, ~375 ventral valves, ~425 dorsal valves (21 measurements)
Schuchertella bassa Grant 1995
176 specimens
16 shells, 75 ventral valves, 85 dorsal valves (10 measurements)
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia regis Grant 1995
28 specimens
3 shells, 10 ventral valves, 15 dorsal valves (5 measurements)
? Diplanus sp. Stehli 1954
7 specimens
4 ventral valves, 3 dorsal valves (3 measurements)
Diplanus dilatus n. sp. Grant 1995
18 specimens
2 ventral valves, 16 dorsal valves (15 measurements)
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Meekellidae
Sicelia explicata Grant 1995
18 specimens
8 ventral valves, 10 dorsal valves (2 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Gemmellaroiidae
Cyndalia rudistiformis n. gen., n. sp. Grant 1993
Grant 1993 149 specimens
22 shells, 102 ventral valves, 25 dorsal valves (11 measurements)
Strophomenata - Productida - Cooperinidae
Falafer epidelus n. gen., n. sp. Grant 1972
Grant 1972
Abundant at all 3 localities, about 1000 specimens in total
Epicelia episcopiensis n. gen., n. sp. Grant 1972
Grant 1972 21 specimens
(3 measurements)
Ceocypea dischides Grant 1972
Grant 1972 5 specimens
(1 measurement)
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dispheniidae
Disphenia myiodes n. gen., n. sp. Grant 1988
Grant 1988 1100 specimens
(8 measurements)
Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Cypridinelliformidae
Cypridinelliforma rex n. sp. Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(5 measurements)
Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Polycope edithae n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(7 measurements)
Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Philomedidae
Philomedes rankiniana (Jones and Kirkby 1867)
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Cylindroleberididae
Eocypridina radiata (Jones and Kirkby 1874)
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(5 measurements)
Siveterella flex n. sp. Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(1 measurement)
Siveterella pax n. gen., n. sp. Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(3 measurements)
Triadocypris pax n. sp. Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(1 measurement)
Ostracoda - Halocyprida - Thaumatocyprididae
Thaumatomma sp. Kornicker and Sohn 1976
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Thaumatomma doescheri n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(2 measurements)
Thaumatomma kozuri n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(1 measurement)
Thaumatomma piscifrons Kornicker and Sohn 1976
Kornicker and Sohn 1976
(18 measurements)
Thaumatomma newelli n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(12 measurements)
Thaumatomma permiana n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(12 measurements)
Thaumatomma elongata n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(3 measurements)
Thaumatomma granti n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(5 measurements)
Thaumatomma procax n. sp. Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(7 measurements)
Thaumatomma aff. procax Sohn and Kornicker 1998
Sohn and Kornicker 1998
(1 measurement)
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Tribolbinidae
Tribolbina doescheri Sohn 1978
Sohn 1978
(8 measurements)
Tribolbina aff. doescheri Sohn 1978
Sohn 1978
(2 measurements)
Ostracoda - Cypridinida - Swainellidae
Swainella bex n. gen., n. sp. Kornicker and Sohn 2000
Kornicker and Sohn 2000
(5 measurements)
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece
Coordinates: 37.3° North, 23.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.8° South, 26.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Lopingian
Stage:Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 4
Key time interval:Wuchiapingian
Age range of interval:259.51000 - 254.14000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Barmari Formation:Episkopi
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of the Episkopi Formation (Wuchiapingian) - formation in total ranges from Capitanian to early Changhsingian. Neogondolella leveni (early Wuchiapingian) occurs below the fossil beds and Neogondolella orientalis + Hindeodus julfensis (late Wuchiapingian to early Changhsingian) occurs just above.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Secondary lithology: wackestone
Lithology description: 55 m of stratified fine grained bioclastic lime packstone with sponge spicules, crinoids, calcareous algae, and foraminifers, characterized by flat to round shaped cherts. Overlain by 10 m of grey nodular lime wackestone and then by 30 m of well bedded lime wackestone-packstone with marly interbeds.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:42460
Authorizer:D. Bottjer, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-29 17:58:14 Last modified:2012-06-07 14:47:37
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-29 17:58:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11299. R. E. Grant. 1995. Upper Permian brachiopods of the Superfamily Orthotetoidea from Hydra Island, Greece. Journal of Paleontology 69(4):655-670 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

17814 R. E. Grant. 1972. The lophophore and feeding mechanism of the Productidina (Brachiopoda). Journal of Paleontology 46(2):213-249 [T. Oakley/T. Oakley]
33515 R. E. Grant. 1988. The Family Cardiarinidae (Late Paleozoic rhynchonellid Brachiopoda). Senckenbergiana Lethaea 69:121-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
27493 R. E. Grant. 1993. The brachiopod family Gemmellaroiidae. Journal of Paleontology 67(1):53-60 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
43579 L. S. Kornicker and I. G. Sohn. 1976. Phlyogeny, ontogeny, and morphology of living and fossil Thaumatocypridacea (Myodocopa: Ostracoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 219:1-124 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
33564 L. S. Kornicker and I. G. Sohn. 2000. Myodocopid Ostracoda from the Late Permian of Greece and a basic classification for Paleozoic and Mesozoic Myodocopida. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 91:1-33 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49635 I. G. Sohn. 1978. Tribolbina Latham, 1932, an Early Carboniferous through Permian palaeocopid ostracode genus. Journal of Research of the U.S. Geological Survey 6:663-675 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
33696 I. G. Sohn and L. S. Kornicker. 1998. Ostracoda from the Late Permian of Greece (Thaumatocyprididae and Polycopidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 87:1-34 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]