Where: Pella, Greece (40.8° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 21.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Saale/Riss glacial zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• On the basis of the evolutionary stage of the species present, the deposit is considered to be Late Pleistocene and to date from the penultimate (Saale/Riss) glacial.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; brown claystone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by H. de Bruijn and C. G. Riimke
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: D. F. Mayhew. 1978. Late Pleistocene small mammals from Arnissa (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 81(3):302-321 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204957: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad | |
Bufo viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad | |
Mammalia | |
Crocidura russula Herrmann 1780 Greater white-toothed shrew
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew
Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 common shrew
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew | |
Ochotona pusilla pika | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Sicista subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse | |
Mesocricetus newtoni, Cricetulus migratorius, Myodes glareolus, "Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Microtus (Pitymys) sp., Microtus sp., Microtus nivalis, Microtus (Microtus) arvalis, Microtus (Microtus) guentheri, Arvicola cantiana, Lagurus lagurus
Mesocricetus newtoni mouse
Cricetulus migratorius Pallas 1773 mouse
Myodes glareolus Schreber 1780 vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus (Pitymys) sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus nivalis vole
Microtus (Microtus) arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus (Microtus) guentheri Danford and Alston 1880 Günther's vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
Lagurus lagurus mouse | |
Spalax microphthalmus Gülden 1770 greater mole rat
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse | |
Dryomys nitedula Pallas 1778 dormouse | |
Spermophilus citellus ground squirrel |