Where: Crete, Greece (35.3° N, 25.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 25.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Richard Weixler in 1990; reposited in the NHMW
Primary reference: J. Gaudant. 2001. Amnissos: un gisement clé pour la connaissance de l'ichthyofaune du Pliocène supérieur de Crète. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie 102:131-187 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207303: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.01.2020, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846 | |
Maurolicus cf. muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside | |
Bregmaceros cf. albyi Sauvage 1880 | |
Gadella sp. Lowe 1843 | |
Micromesistius sp. Gill 1863 | |
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? Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802
Caranx sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Belone sp. Oken 1816
? Scomberesox sp. Lacépède 1803 | |
Labridae indet. Cuvier 1816 | |
Boops sp. Cuvier 1814 perch-like fish | |
Serranus sp. Cuvier 1817 perch-like fish | |
Percoidei indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish | |
Lepidopus sp. Gouan 1770 | |
Syngnathus cf. albyi Sauvage 1870 pipefish | |
Myctophum sp. Rafinesque 1810 lanternfish | |
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring
Alosa cf. elongata Agassiz 1842 herring
Sardina cf. pilchardus Walbaum 1792 herring
Spratelloides cf. gracilis Temminck and Schlegel 1846 herring | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark | |
Dasyatoidea indet. Whitley 1940 stingray |