Rethymnon fissure (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 24.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kuss in 1970; reposited in the AMPG

Primary reference: E. Vlachos. 2015. The Fossil Chelonians of Greece. Systematics - Evolution - Stratigraphy - Palaeoecology. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 173:1-479 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192443: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.04.2018, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys rivulata
Mauremys rivulata Valenciennes 1833 Western Caspian turtle
AMPG material, formerly in Utrecht University
Aves
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Asio flammeus5
Asio flammeus5 Pontoppidan 1763 short-eared owl
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Gyps fulvus5
Gyps fulvus5 Hablizl 1783 Eurasian griffon
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus minotaurus2
Mus minotaurus2 Bate 1942 house mouse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus sp.1, Candiacervus cretensis1, Candiacervus rethymnensis4, Candiacervus ropalophorus4
Candiacervus sp.1 Kuss 1975 deer
size II
Candiacervus cretensis1 Simonelli 1907 deer
Candiacervus rethymnensis4 Kuss 1975 deer
Candiacervus ropalophorus4 de Vos 1979 deer
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura zimmermanni3
Crocidura zimmermanni3 Wettstein 1953 white-toothed shrew
1de Vos 1996; 2Mayhew 1977; 3Reumer 1986; 4van der Geer 2018; 5Weesie 1988