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

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