Mount Karavos, Rhodes Island (Triassic of Greece)

Where: Greece (36.2° N, 28.1° E: paleocoordinates 1.7° S, 24.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peloidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Lekkas, G. Danamos, E. Skourtsos and D. Sakellariou. 2002. Position of the Middle Triassic Tyros Beds in the Gavrovo-Tripolis Unit (Rhodes Island, Dodecanese, Greece). Geologica Carpathica 53(1):37-44 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201825: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 31.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Based on Mutti et al. (1970)
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Crinoidea
 Encrinida - Encrinidae
Encrinus liliiformis Lamarck 1801 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Stefaninia cf. ogilviae Bittner 1895 pearl oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel