Faneromeni Section (Miocene to of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.2° N, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• Between the base and 45 m, it comprises alternating marls and clayey limestones. In the lower part, burrows and marly sapropel levels occur. Between 45 and 57 m, clayey limestones dominate and bioturbations are frequent. Laminated marly beds (with continental leaves and fish remains) appear in the upper half, and firmgrounds and brecciated slump levels have been observed near the top where a 1-m thick Halimeda (calcareous green algae) floatstone appears. Several levels with concentrations of bivalve shells (mostly Neopycnodonte) also occur throughout the section.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: P. Moissette, J. J. Cornee, A. Antonarakou, G. Kontakiotis, H. Drinia, E. Koskeridou, T. Tsourou, K. Agiadi, and V. Karakitsios. 2018. Palaeoenvironmental changes at the Tortonian/Messinian boundary: A deep-sea sedimentary record of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 505:217-233 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207593: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.01.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Gobius bicornuta, Lesueurigobius sp.
Lesueurigobius sp. Whitley 1950 goby
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros sp.
Bregmaceros sp. Thompson 1840
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Hygophum hygomii, Myctophum fitchi, Ceratoscopelus maderensis, Lobianchia dofleini, Diaphus acutirostrum, Diaphus cavallonis, Diaphus splendidus
Hygophum hygomii lanternfish
Myctophum fitchi lanternfish
Ceratoscopelus maderensis Lowe 1839 Madeira lantern fish
Lobianchia dofleini Zugmayer 1911 Dofleini's lanternfish
Diaphus cavallonis lanternfish
Diaphus splendidus Prochazka 1893 horned lanternfish
 Anguilliformes - Congridae
Rhynchoconger pantanellii
Rhynchoconger pantanellii Bassoli and Schubert 1906 conger eel