ammonites
03-1-25 Parekklisia (Triassic of Cyprus)

Where: Cyprus (34.7° N, 33.2° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 26.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Phasoula Formation (Dhiarizos Group), Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• block of Phasoula Formation in the lower part of the Campanian-Maastrichtian Moni olistostrome, sample 03-1-25 is Middle Norian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified chert and lithified limestone

• thin gray and pink cherty interbeds in small lenses (1-2 m thick) of white, light gray and pink micritic limestones in reddish brown and greenish, strongly transformed volcanics

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: N. Y. Bragin. 2007. Late Triassic radiolarians of southern Cyprus. Paleontological Journal 41(10):951-1029 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94795: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.03.2010