Tsoukalades, Boeotia (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.5° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• allochthonous block in Tertiary flysch-type deposits

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• block of massive lithobioclastic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber. 1999. Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece. Special Papers in Palaeontology 61:5-229 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Caprina baylei Gemmellaro 1865 rudist