Analipsis (Sourpi), Boeotia (Cretaceous to of Greece)

Also known as Reef 3531

Where: Greece (38.4° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 20.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian to Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 105.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• biostromes up to 2 m thick, exposed 10 m above the base of the section, and pseudocolonies (bouquets)
• marls with numerous rudist bouquets overlie ophiolitic conglomerates and sandstones; massive limestones in the upper part

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 64243: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Ellipsosmilia sp." = Trochosmilia (Ellipsosmilia)
"Ellipsosmilia sp." = Trochosmilia (Ellipsosmilia) d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
Foraminifera
  -
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae