Gerani IV Cave (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as Gerani

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 24.4° E)

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. E. Kuss. 1970. Abfolge und Alter der Pleistozänen Säugetierfaunen der Insel Kreta. Ber Nat forsch Ges Freiburgi Br 60:35-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182810: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 25.11.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus sp.2 Kuss 1975 deer
size II
Candiacervus ropalophorus n. sp.5 de Vos 1979 deer
RGM 437170 (Gerani 4, beam fragment), RGM 437171 (Gerani 4, beam fragment), RGM 437176 (Gerani 4, beam fragment), RGM 438780 (Gerani 4, distal part), RGM 438788 (Gerani 4, distal part), RGM Ge4-3520 (Gerani 4, middle part).
Candiacervus listeri5 van der Geer 2018 deer
RGM 438498 (Gerani 4, right shed antler fragment)
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus minotaurus4 Bate 1942 house mouse
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
cf. Elaphe situla3 colubrid snake
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo marginata1 Schoepff 1792 Marginated tortoise
cretensis n. ssp.
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp.6 Gray 1870 pond turtle
AMPG material; could be recent material
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Scolopax rusticola7 Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian woodcock
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus monedula7 Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian jackdaw
Pyrrhocorax graculus7 Linnaeus 1766 yellow-billed chough
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Gypaetus barbatus7 Linnaeus 1758 bearded vulture