Tsangaraki (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.2° N, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Gaudant, E. Fourtanier, A. Lauriat-rage, S. Tsagaris, M. T. Venec-Peyre and I. Zorn. 1997. Découverte d'une ichthyofaune marine dans le Messinien préévaporitique de la Messara (Crète centrale, Grèce) : interprétation paléoécologique. geologie Mediterraneenee 24(3-4):175-195 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207364: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2020, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
"Myctophum" dorsale Sauvage 1870 lanternfish
"Myctophum" licatae Sauvage 1880 lanternfish
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Syngnathus albyi Sauvage 1870 pipefish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Alosa crassa Sauvage 1873 herring