PBDB Collection

Plakias (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as Plakia

Where: Crete, Greece (35.2° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 24.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 mammal zone, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray claystone

• 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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183151: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 05.12.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Democricetodon affinis cretensis n. ssp.¹ Democricetodon affinis cretensis n. ssp.¹ rodent
Amphibia
Salientia - Alytidae	cf. Alytidae indet.² cf. Alytidae indet.² Fitzinger 1843 midwife toads UU PL 701, a fragmentary trunk vertebra; UU PL 702, a single, partial tibiofibula
Reptilia
Loricata -	Crocodylia indet.² Crocodylia indet.² crocodilian UU PL 706 to UU PL 732, 27 isolated teeth; UU PL 735 and UU PL 736, two phalanges
Squamata - Colubridae	? Natricinae indet.² ? Natricinae indet.² Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake UU PL 734, a single precloacal vertebra
Squamata -	Amphisbaenia indet.² Amphisbaenia indet.² worm lizard UU PL 733, a single presacral vertebra
Testudines - Trionychidae	Trionychidae indet.² Trionychidae indet.² Gray 1825 softshell turtle "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
Testudines - Geoemydidae	Mauremys sp.² Mauremys sp.² Gray 1870 pond turtle 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
Mammalia
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Eumyarion leemanni, Cricetinae indet. Eumyarion leemanni Hartenberger 1966 rodent Cricetinae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 rodent
Rodentia - Gliridae	Gliridae indet., Glirulus werenfelsi, Glirudinus sp.¹ Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse Glirulus werenfelsi Engesser 1972 Japanese dormouse Glirudinus sp.¹ de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Rodentia - Sciuridae	? Forsythia sp.¹, cf. Hylopetes sp., cf. Blackia sp.¹, Spermophilinus cf. bredai¹ ? Forsythia sp.¹ Mein 1970 squirrel cf. Hylopetes sp. Thomas 1908 squirrel cf. Blackia sp.¹ Mein 1970 squirrel Spermophilinus cf. bredai¹ von Meyer 1848 squirrel
Rodentia - Eomyidae	Eomyops aff. catalaunicus Eomyops aff. catalaunicus rodent
Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae	Erinaceinae indet., Lantanotherium sanmigueli Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 hedgehog Lantanotherium sanmigueli Villalta and Crusafont 1944 hedgehog
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Paenelimnoecus sp. Paenelimnoecus sp. Baudelot 1972 red-toothed shrew

¹de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972; ²Georgalis et al. 2016