Where: Crete, Greece (35.1° N, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 25.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Irakleio
Primary reference: G. J. Boekschoten and P. Y. Sondaar. 1966. The Pleistocene of the Katharo Basin (Crete) and its Hippopotamus. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 36(8):17-44 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204321: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 05.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Hippopotamus creutzburgi n. sp.
Hippopotamus creutzburgi n. sp. Boekschoten and Sondaar 1966 hippo BNHM-M10286 (holotype), a fragmentary upper jaw, with P4–M3 left and right and palatum
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