ammonites
Cape Doukato, Lefkas Island (Cretaceous of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.6° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.0° N, 18.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• Latest Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• toe of slope of the Apulian carbonate platform
• blocks of megabreccias, which are intercalated in calciturbidites and hemipelagic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Steuber, M. Parente, M. Hagmaier, A. Immenhauser, B. Kooij and G. Frijia. 2007. Latest Maastrichtian species-rich rudist associations of the Apulian margin of Salento (S Italy) and the Ionian Islands (Greece). In R. W. Scott (ed.), Cretaceous rudists and carbonate platforms: environmental feedback, SEPM Special Publication 87:151-157 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84730: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.11.2008