Abstract
The Ayios Photios Group in SW Cyprus represents a deep-water slope or base of slope sequence that was accumulated on a Mesozoic margin of the Mediterranean Tethys. The Episkopi Formation is an essentially radiolaritic sequence, the age of which was previously considered to range between the Callovian and the Valanginian. A moderately well preserved (PI 4-5) radiolarian assemblage was extracted after laboratory leaching with diluted hydrofluoric acid of a radiolarian chert bed south of the village of Episkopi. Based on the co-occurrence of Bernoullius rectispinus leporinus Conti & Marcucci, Hexasaturnalis tetraspinus (Yao) and Theocapsommella cucurbiformis (Baumgartner), the assemblage is correlated with the Middle Bathonian (Unitary Association Zone 6). Our results extend downwards the known age range of radiolarites of the Episkopi formation and reduce the previously known range of depositional hiatus with the underlying Upper Triassic formations of the Ayios Photios Group.
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