Where: Crete Island, Greece (35.6° N, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 24.1° E)

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When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.1 Ma)

• Mammuthus creticus is the geologically oldest of the elephant species identified on Crete, and belongs to the Early - early Middle Pleistocene endemic fauna of the island.

Environment/lithology: cave; silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Paul Yves Sondaar in 1973; reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. Bate. 1907. On elephant remains from Crete, with description of Elephas creticus n. sp. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907:238-250 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202421: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 10.07.2019

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