Plakias: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Alytidae
cf. Alytidae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Georgalis et al. 2016 2 specimens
UU PL 701, a fragmentary trunk vertebra; UU PL 702, a single, partial tibiofibula
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819
1 specimen
Glirudinus sp. de Bruijn 1966
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972
Glirulus werenfelsi Engesser 1972
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus cf. bredai (von Meyer 1848)
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972
cf. Hylopetes sp. Thomas 1908
1 specimen
? Forsythia sp. Mein 1970
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972
cf. Blackia sp. Mein 1970
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyops aff. catalaunicus
29 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetinae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
3 specimens
Democricetodon cretensis n. sp. de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 4 specimens
as subspecies of affinis
Eumyarion leemanni Hartenberger 1966
2 specimens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
1 specimen
Lantanotherium sanmigueli Villalta and Crusafont 1944
3 specimens
Mammalia - Soricidae
Paenelimnoecus sp. Baudelot 1972
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp. Gray 1870
Georgalis et al. 2016 53 specimens
NHMC 21.7.3.1618, part of anterior lobe; NHMC 21.7.3.1619, right xiphiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1620, left hypoplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1621, group of 15 plastral fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1622-1624, three neurals; NHMC 21.7.3.1625-1626, left hyoplastron fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1627, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1628, costal fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1629, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1630-1631 [prseumably incorrectly stated in text as "1931" given sequential numbers here], two costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1632, left epiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1633, left hyoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1634, group of 23 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1635, right epiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1636-1637 [presumably incorrectly stated as "1937"], two left epiplastra; NHMC 21.7.3.1638-1639 [presumably incorrectly stated as "1939"], two costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1640, two costals in association; NHMC 21.7.3.1641, right peripheral 1; NHMC 21.7.3.1642, right xiphiplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1643, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1644, left hyoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1645-1647, three costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1648, group of approximately 80 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1649, neural fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1650, group of 10 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1651, neural I; NHMC 21.7.3.1652-1665, 14 costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1666-1668, three peripheral fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1669, group of 50 shell fragments; UU PL 705, possible hyoplastron fragment
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Georgalis et al. 2016 4 specimens
"Pan-Trionychidae indet.". UU PL 703, costal fragment; UU PL 704, costal fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1670, neural; NHMC 21.7.3.1671, plastron fragment
Reptilia - Colubridae
? Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Georgalis et al. 2016 1 specimen
UU PL 734, a single precloacal vertebra
Reptilia
Amphisbaenia indet. (Gray 1844)
Georgalis et al. 2016 1 specimen
UU PL 733, a single presacral vertebra
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Georgalis et al. 2016 29 specimens
UU PL 706 to UU PL 732, 27 isolated teeth; UU PL 735 and UU PL 736, two phalanges
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Crete
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 24.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.9° North, 24.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene Mammal zone: MN 9
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The small mammal remains are derived from grayish clays overlying beige to brown colored clays with calcretes in a shallow gully complex on a partly covered dipslope to the southeast of Plakias
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Plakia
Database number:183151
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2016-12-05 15:02:10 Last modified:2021-12-16 03:43:30
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-05 15:02:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61130. H. de Bruijn, C. S. Doukas, L. W. Hoek Ostende and W. J. Zachariasse. 2012. New finds of rodents and insectivores from the Upper Miocene at Plakias (Crete, Greece). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 131:61-75 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

70466 H. de Bruijn and J. E. Meulenkamp. 1972. Late Miocene rodents from the Pandanassa formation (prov. Rethymnon), Crete, Greece. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 75(1):54-60 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
78894 G. L. Georgalis and M. Delfino. 2022. The Fossil Record of Crocodylians (Reptilia: Crocodylia) in Greece. In E. Vlachos (ed.), Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1 237-243 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
61132 G. L. Georgalis, A. Villa, E. Vlachos and M. Delfino. 2016. Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Plakias, Crete: A glimpse into the earliest late Miocene herpetofaunas of southeastern Europe. Geobios 49:433-444 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]