Where: Rhodes, Greece (36.3° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lindos Bay Formation, Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• The lower part of the sequence consists of 6 m limestones of the Kolymbia Formation, followed by 20 m marls of the Lindos Bay Formation, unconformably capped by a calcarenite corresponding to the Cape Arkhangelos Formation. One sample (Vag1) was taken from the Kolymbia Formation and seven samples (Vag2–8) from the Lindos Bay Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: K. Agiadi, A. Girone, E. Koskeridou, P. Moissette, J. J. Cornee and F. Quillevere. 2018. Pleistocene marine fish invasions and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in the eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews 196:80-99 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207569: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.01.2020

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