Where: Greece (34.8° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 20.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• The age of the fossiliferous horizons that yielded the fish material examined in this work correspond to the stratigraphically deeper layers of the ‘transitional’ marly limestone. These were biostratigraphically constrained to the mid-late Maastrichtian, on the basis of contained planktonic foraminifera. More specifically fish-bearing slabs previously collected from the same pavements, and deriving from the same horizons exposed in Vatsiana Quarry, produced foraminiferal associations characteristic of the †Contusotruncana contusa-†Racemiguembelina fruticosa biozones. This, in conjunction with the absence of biomarkers for the latest Maastrichtian †Abathomphalus mayaroensis biozone, roughly indicate an absolute age constraint between 69.18 Ma and 70.14 Ma.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Sofokli Venizelou Avenue, Heraklion. Paleontology and Geology Museum (AMPG) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).
Primary reference: L. Cavin, A. Alexopoulos, and A. Piuz. 2012. Cavin, L., Alexopoulos, A., & Piuz, A. (2012). Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) ray-finned fishes from the island of Gavdos, southern Greece, with comments on the evolutionary history of the aulopiform teleost Enchodus. ulletin de La Societe Geologique de France 183(6):561-572 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207367: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2020, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Teleostei indet., "Eurypterygii indet." = Eurypterygia
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Enchodontidae "indet. 1", Enchodontidae "indet. 2", Calypsoichthys pavlakiensis n. gen. n. sp., Enchodus cf. dirus
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Ichthyotringa pindica n. sp.
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Ichthyodectoidei indet. Romer 1966 A single sub-articulated specimen comprising part of the caudal skeleton (fig. 3). Collection number: Gavdos_fish_1/2010; 5 scales (AMPG_VTS_7, 8, 13, 21, 22) and 1 caudal fin (AMPG_VTS_29) in Argyriou et al. 2022
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