Cave between Canea and Suda (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.5° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 24.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. M. A. Bate. 1942. New Pleistocene Murinæ from Crete. Journal of Natural History 9(49):41-49 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203935: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

• These were associated with remains of ungulates and a shrew (Bate, 1905, p. 194)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus minotaurus n. sp. Bate 1942 house mouse
BMNH M15950 (holotype), maxilla with M1–M3