Island fossil ungulates (Pleistocene to of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.2° N, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 24.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Raia and S. Meiri. 2006. The Island Rule in Large Mammals: Paleontology Meets Ecology. Evolution 60(8):1731-1742 [M. Uhen/L. White]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94325: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lauren White on 16.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Hippopothamus creutzburgi
early Pleistocene
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus creticus Bate 1907 mammoth
early Pleistocene
"Elephas creutzburgi" = Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi Kuss 1965 elephant
late Pleistocene
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
"Cervus rethymnensis" = Candiacervus rethymnensis Kuss 1975 deer
late Pleistocene
"Cervus major" = Candiacervus major Capasso Barbato and Petronio 1986 deer
late Pleistocene
Cervus dorothoensis deer
late Pleistocene
Praemegaceros cretensis deer
late Pleistocene
Praemegaceros ropalophorus deer
late Pleistocene