Neopygnodonta navicularis assemblage zone, Strymon Basin (Miocene of Greece)
Where: Greece (40.8° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Dermitzakis and E. Georgiades-Dikeoulia. 1987. Biozonation of the Neogene invertebrate megafauna of the Hellenic area. Annales Instituti Geologici Publici Hungarici 70:125-136 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72311: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2007