ammonites
Hydra, reef limestone facies (Triassic of Greece)

Also known as Reef 2

Where: Greece (37.3° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pantokrator limestone Formation, Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Could extend into lowermost Norian, but mostly late Carnian according to Turnsek & Senowbar-Daryan (1994)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• coarsly bedded reef-limestones, intraformational breccias common

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: P. Schäfer and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1982. The Upper Triassic Pantokrator Limestone of Hydra (Greece): An Example of a Prograding Reef Complex. Facies 6:147-164 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38018: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 31.03.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Matthew Clapham