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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Cyprus

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10px Nicosia Formation
10px Koronia Formation
10px Pakhna Formation
10px Lefkara Formation
10px Perapedhi Formation
10px Vlambouros Formation
10px Phasoula Formation
10px Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation

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The following fossiliferous stratigraphic units are found in Cyprus.

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GroupFormationPeriodclass="unsortable" | Notes
Nicosia Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|pliocene}};" | Pliocenealign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=34689 Nicosia Formation]
Koronia Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|tortonian}};" | Tortonianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Koronia&group_formation_member=Koronia Koronia Formation]
Pakhna Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|burdigalian}};" | Aquitanian-Serravallianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Pakhna&group_formation_member=Pakhna Pakhna Formation]
Lefkara Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|ypresian}};" | Thanetian-Lutetianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Lefkara&group_formation_member=Lefkara Lefkara Formation]
Perapedhi Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|coniacian}};" | Turonian-Santonianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=&formation=Perapedhi&group_formation_member=Perapedhi Perapedhi Formation]
Ayios Photios GroupVlambouros Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|norian}};" | Norianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayStrata?geological_group=Ayios%20Photios&formation=Vlambouros&group_formation_member=Vlambouros Vlambouros Formation]
Dhiarizos GroupPhasoula Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|norian}};" | Early Norianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?geological_group=Dhiarizos&formation=Phasoula Phasoula Formation]
Petra-tou-Roumiou Formationstyle="background-color: {{period color|carnian}};" | Carnianalign=center | [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=73866 Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation]

See also

References

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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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