90-59-12 Khapotami River (Triassic of Cyprus)
Where: Cyprus (34.7° N, 32.6° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° N, 26.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Vlambouros Formation (Ayios Photios Group), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 Ma)
• bed 2, Late Norian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope; lithified chert and lithified siltstone
• most distal facies of turbidite
• bed 2: gray and greenish-gray, fine-grained, undulating sandstones, with interbeds of light gray siltstones and pink and light red cherts and infrequent interbeds of pink micritic limestones
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 94798: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.03.2010