Where: Samos Island, Greece (37.7° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 26.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected in 1976; reposited in the CM
Collection methods: quarrying, sieve,
Primary reference: C. C. Black, L. Krishtalka, and N. Solounias. 1980. Mammalian fossils of Samos and Pikermi, Part 1. The Turolian rodents and insectivores of Samos. Annals of Carnegie Museum 49:359-378 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 205351: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.10.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Parmacella sp. Cuvier 1804 slug | |
Rumina decollata Linnaeus 1758 slug | |
Aves | |
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird | |
Reptilia | |
Testudo cf. marmorum Gaudry 1862 turtle | |
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard | |
Mammalia | |
Samotherium boissieri Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe | |
Hipparion proboscideum hipparionine horse
Hipparion dietrichi Wehrli 1941 hipparionine horse | |
Thalassictis wongii Zdansky 1924 hyaena
Hyaenictis eximia hyaena | |
"Galerix atticus" = Schizogalerix zapfei
"Galerix atticus" = Schizogalerix zapfei Bachmayer and Wilson 1970 hedgehog | |
Byzantinia hellenicus Freudenthal 1970 rodent | |
Spermophilinus cf. bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Pseudomeriones pythagorasi n. sp. Black et al. 1980 gerbil
Pliospalax cf. sotirisi blind mole
? Occitanomys provocator de Bruijn 1976 mouse | |
Hystrix primigenia Wagner 1848 porcupine |