Kalamaki Section (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Zakynthos, Greece (37.7° N, 20.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

• Marls with rare calcareous marl and calcarenite intercalations

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: V. Karakitsios, M. Roveri, S. Lugli, V. Manzi, R. Gennari, A. Antonarakou, M. Triantaphyllou, K. Agiadi, G. Kontakiotis, N. Kafousia, and M. Rafelis. 2017. A record of the Messinian salinity crisis in the eastern Ionian tectonically active domain . Basin Research 29:203-233 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207583: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Umbilicosphaera
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Helicosphaera carteri
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Helicosphaera carteri Wallich 1877
Reticulofenestra
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Actinopteri
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Myctophum coppa lanternfish
Diaphus cavallonis lanternfish
Diaphus rubus lanternfish
Diaphus taaningi Norma 1930 slopewater lanternfish
Ceratoscopelus maderensis Lowe 1839 Madeira lantern fish
 Gadiformes - Moridae
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
Gadiculus argenteus Guichenot 1850 silvery pout
 Batrachoidiformes - Batrachoididae
"Diaphus cf. pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus
"Diaphus cf. pedemontanus" = Porichthys pedemontanus Robba 1970 toadfish
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Lepidopus caudatus Euphrasen 1788
 Pleuronectiformes - Soleidae
Buglossidium sp. Chabanaud 1930 flatfish
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
Otolithes
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"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus
"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus Schubert 1905
 Coccosphaerales - Calcidiscaceae
Calcidiscus leptoporus Murray and Blackman 1898