ALBIAN CORALS FROM THE SUBPELAGONIAN ZONE OF CENTRAL GREECE (AGROSTYLIA, PARNASSOS REGION)

Elżbieta MORYCOWA (1) & Anastasia MARCOPOULOU-DIACANTONI (2)
(1) Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Poland, e-mail: ela@ing.uj.edu.pl
(2) Department of Historical Geology and Paleontology, University of Athens, Panepistimioupoli, 15784 Athens, Greece, e-mail: amarkop@geol.uoa.gr

Morycowa, E. & Marcopoulou-Diacantoni, A., 2002. Albian corals from the Subpelagonian Zone of Central Greece (Agrostylia, Parnassos region). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 72: 1-65.

Key words: Scleractinia, Octocorallia, Parnassos, Greece, Albian, taxonomy, palaeogeography.
Abstract: Shallow-water scleractinian corals from Cretaceous allochthonous sediments of Subpelagonian Zone in Agrostylia (Parnassos region, Central Greece) represent 47 taxa belonging to 35 genera, 15 families and 8 suborders; of these 3 new genera and 9 new species are described. Among these taxa, 5 were identified only at the generic level. One octocorallian species has also been identified. This coral assemblage is representative for late Early Cretaceous Tethyan realm but also shows some endemism. A characteristic feature of this scleractinian coral assemblage is the abundance of specimens from the suborder Rhipidogyrina. The Albian age of the corals discussed is indicated by the whole studied coral fauna, associated foraminifers, calpionellids and calcareous dinoflagellates.
Annales
Societatis
Geologorum
Poloniae

 

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