PBDB Collection

Rema Aslan (Pliocene of Greece)

Also known as Chalicorrema

Where: Serres, Greece (40.8° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Villanyian (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. van der Meulen and T. van Kolfschoten. 1986. Review of the late Turolian to early Biharian mammal faunas from Greece and Turkey. Memorie Societá Geologica Italiana 31:201-211 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205075: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 04.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
Salientia -	Anura indet.¹ Anura indet.¹ frog one trunk vertebra (UU RA 508), one humerus (UU RA 520), one radioulna (UU RA 506), one femur (UU RA 502), and two tibiofibulae (UU R 503 and UU RA 507);
Salientia - Pelobatidae	Pelobates sp.¹ Pelobates sp.¹ Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad two maxillae (UU RA 509 and UU RA 512) and five sculptured bone fragments (UU RA 510, UU RA 511, UU RA 514, UU RA 515, and UU RA 517).
Salientia - Bufonidae	Bufonidae indet.¹ Bufonidae indet.¹ Gray 1825 toad one sacral vertebra (UU RA 501);
Salientia - Bombinatoridae	Bombina sp.¹ Bombina sp.¹ Oken 1816 fire-bellied toad one sacral vertebra (UU RA 516), one urostyle (UU RA 513), and one humerus (UU RA 504).
Salientia - Discoglossidae	Discoglossidae indet.¹, cf. Latonia sp.² Discoglossidae indet.¹ Günther 1859 painted frog two urostyles (UU RA 518 and UU RA 519). cf. Latonia sp.² von Meyer 1843 painted frog
Reptilia
Squamata -	Squamata indet.¹ Squamata indet.¹ squamates one fragment of indeterminate tooth bearing bone (UU RA 405);
Squamata - Anguidae	Anguinae indet.¹ Anguinae indet.¹ Gray 1825 squamates six osteoderms (UU RA 421– UU RA 426);
Squamata - Agamidae	Agaminae indet.¹ Agaminae indet.¹ squamates one right maxilla (UU RA 403), three dentaries (UU RA 427–UU RA 429), two fragments of indeterminate tooth bearing bones (UU RA 401 and UU RA 402), and five caudal vertebrae (UU RA 404 and UU RA 430–UU RA 433).
Serpentes -	Serpentes indet.¹ Serpentes indet.¹ snake a fragment of a vertebra (UU RA 406);
Squamata - Natricidae	? Natricidae indet.¹ ? Natricidae indet.¹ Bonaparte 1838 snake three trunk vertebrae (UU RA 408–UU RA 410);
Mammalia
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Mimomys sp. Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902 vole
Rodentia - Muridae	Apodemus cf. dominans, Rhagapodemus cf. frequens Apodemus cf. dominans Eurasian field mouse Rhagapodemus cf. frequens mouse
Rodentia - Gliridae	Myomimus roachi Myomimus roachi Bate 1937 Mouse-tailed dormouse
Colubriformes
Colubriformes -	Colubriformes indet.¹ Colubriformes indet.¹ Günther 1864 three trunk vertebrae (UU RA 411–UU RA 413);

¹Georgalis et al. 2024; ²Sanchiz 1998