Liko Cave, 75 uppermost centimetres of the cave filling (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)

• 75 uppermost centimetres of the cave filling

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. A. E. van der Geer. 2018. Uniformity in variety: Antler morphology and evolution in a predator-free environment. Palaeontologia Electronica 21(1.9A):1-31 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204036: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 29.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus reumeri n. sp. van der Geer 2018 deer
Holotype: male skull AMPG(V) 1736, figured in de Vos (1984, plate 14). Paratypes: left antler RGM 442702 (figured in de Vos (1984, plate 8). Types stored at Museum of Palaeontology and Geology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) (holotype) and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (paratype).
Candiacervus devosi n. sp. van der Geer 2018 deer
Holotype: male skull AMPG(V)1735, figured in de Vos (1984: plate 13). Paratype: right antler AMPG(V) 1733. Types stored at Museum of Palaeontology and Geology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Candiacervus listeri n. sp. van der Geer 2018 deer
Holotype: male skull AMPG(V) 1734, figured in de Vos (1984, plate 12). Paratype: partial skull with left and right antler AMPG(V) 1726. Types stored at the Museum of Palaeontology and Geology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece).