Liko Cave, bed D (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 24.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. D. M. Weesie. 1988. The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece. Palaeovertebrata 18:1-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192954: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura zimmermanni1 Wettstein 1953 white-toothed shrew
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus devosi2 van der Geer 2018 deer
RGM 442730 (Liko D, left shed antler),AMPG(V) 2103 (Liko D; left shed antler fragment), AMPG(V) 2109 (Liko D, shed antler part)
Candiacervus reumeri2 van der Geer 2018 deer
AMPG(V)2153 (Liko D, left shed fragment)
Aves
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus 1758 Common kestrel
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove
C. livia/oenas
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Ketupa zeylonensis Gmelin 1788 brown fish-owl
Athene cretensis Weesie 1982 true owl
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto alba Scopoli 1769 barn owl
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus sp. Linnaeus 1758 crow
Corvus monedula Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian jackdaw
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Branta ruficollis Pallas 1769 red-breasted goose
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 golden eagle
Accipiter nisus Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian sparrowhawk
Buteo buteo Linnaeus 1758 common buzzard
Aegypius monachus Linnaeus 1766 cinereous vulture