The following fossiliferous stratigraphic units are found in Cyprus.
Group Formation Period Notes Nicosia Formation Pliocene Nicosia Formation Koronia Formation Tortonian Koronia Formation Pakhna Formation Aquitanian-Serravallian Pakhna Formation Lefkara Formation Thanetian-Lutetian Lefkara Formation Perapedhi Formation Turonian-Santonian Perapedhi Formation Ayios Photios Group Vlambouros Formation Norian Vlambouros Formation Dhiarizos Group Phasoula Formation Early Norian Phasoula Formation Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation Carnian Petra-tou-Roumiou Formation
See also Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Europe List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Greece List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Northern Cyprus List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Turkey Geology of Cyprus Petra tou Romiou Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus Cyprus dwarf elephant Argonauta absyrtus
References
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