Lava 2 (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Kozani, Greece (40.1° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 21.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 13 mammal zone, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, G. Sarac, L. W. Hoek Ostende and S. Roussiakis. 1999. The status of the genus name Parapodemus SCHAUB, 1938; new data bearing on an old controversy. In J. W. F. Reumer, J. de Vos (eds.), Elephants have a snorkel! Papers in honour of Paul Y. Sondaar - Deinsea 7:95-112 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205341: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Prospalax aff. petteri Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 rodent
Kowalskia browni Daxner-Höck 1992 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel
Pliopetaurista sp. Kretzoi 1962 squirrel
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Muscardinus cf. vireti Hugueney and Mein 1965 dormouse
Glis cf. minor Kowalski 1963 dormouse
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Pliopentalagus sp. Gureev and Konkova 1964 rabbit
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Galericini indet. Pomel 1848 hedgehog
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Amblycoptus sp. Kormos 1926 red-toothed shrew