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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cyprus

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Nicosia Formation
Koronia Formation
Pakhna Formation
Lefkara Formation
Perapedhi Formation
Vlambouros Formation
Phasoula Formation
Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation

The following fossiliferous stratigraphic units are found in Cyprus.

Group Formation Period Notes
Nicosia Formation Pliocene
Koronia Formation Tortonian
Pakhna Formation Aquitanian-Serravallian
Lefkara Formation Thanetian-Lutetian
Perapedhi Formation Turonian-Santonian
Ayios Photios Group Vlambouros Formation Norian
Dhiarizos Group Phasoula Formation Early Norian
Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation Carnian

See also

References

  1. Nicosia Formation
  2. Koronia Formation
  3. Pakhna Formation
  4. Lefkara Formation
  5. Perapedhi Formation
  6. Vlambouros Formation
  7. Phasoula Formation
  8. Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation

Further reading

  • L. G. Bragina. 2008. Radiolarians of the family Neosciadiocapsidae from the Turonian-Santonian of the Perapedhi Formation, southern Cyprus. Paleontological Journal 42(2):127–138
  • N. Y. Bragin. 2007. Late Triassic radiolarians of southern Cyprus. Paleontological Journal 41(10):951–1029
  • S. Q. Dornbos and M. A. Wilson. 1999. Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus: recovery of a marine community from the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 213(1):103–118
  • E. Flügel. 1960. Heterastridium conglobatum conglobatum Reuss, an Upper Triassic hydrozoan from the Petra-tou-Roumiou Limestone of Pendakomo, Cyprus. Journal of Paleontology 34(1):127–132
  • E. J. Follows, A. H. F. Robertson, and T. P. Scoffin. 1996. Tectonic controls on Miocene reefs and related carbonate facies in Cyprus. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:295–315
  • D. M. Martill and M. J. Barker. 2006. A paper nautilus (Octopoda, Argonauta) from the Miocene Pakhna Formation of Cyprus. Palaeontology 49(5):1035–1041
  • F. R. C. Reed. 1935. Notes on the Neogene faunas of Cyprus, II. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 15(85):1–31
  • A. Sanfilippo, A. Hakyemez, and U.K. Tekin. 2003. Biostratigraphy of Late Paleocene- Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus. Micropaleontology 49(1–2):47–64
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