Dhionisos, Boeotia (Cretaceous of Greece)
Where: Greece (38.5° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 20.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Age given as Santonian-Campanian, most likely Santonian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl
• marly-arenaceous limestones and marls, rudist coquinas, thick-bedded limestones
Size class: macrofossils
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 64274: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2006