Faliraki South (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Rhodes, Greece (36.3° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: K. Agiadi, C. Giamali, A. Girone, P. Moissete, E. Koskeridou and V. Karakitsios. 2020. The Zanclean marine fish fauna and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coastal marine setting in the eastern Mediterranean. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:773-792 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207580: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
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Engraulis encrasicolus Linnaeus 1758
Actinopteri
 Anguilliformes - Muraenidae
"Conger conger" = Muraena conger
"Conger conger" = Muraena conger Linnaeus 1758 European conger
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Diaphus sp. Eigenmann and Eigenmann 1890 lanternfish
Ceratoscopelus maderensis Lowe 1839 Madeira lantern fish
 Gadiformes - Lotidae
 Acanthomorphata - Haemulidae
 Perciformes - Cepolidae
Cepola macrophthalma perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Dentex maroccanus perch-like fish
Pagellus bogaraveo perch-like fish
 Spariformes - Sparidae
Sparidae indet. Cuvier 1817
 Spariformes - Centracanthidae
Spicara smaris Linnaeus 1758
 Ophidiiformes - Bythitidae
Grammonus ater Risso 1810
 Ophidiiformes - Ophidiidae
 Ophidiiformes - Carapidae
Carapus acus Brünnich 1768
 Kurtiformes - Apogonidae
Apogon sp. Lacépède 1802 Cardinalfish
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Gobiidae indet. Bonaparte 1832 goby
Gobius sp. Linnaeus 1758 goby
Gobius cobitis Pallas 1814 goby
Gobius geniporus Valenciennes 1837 goby
Chromogobius zebratus Miller 1971 goby
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Trachurus mediterraneus Steindachner 1868
 Acanthomorphata - Pomacentridae
 Atheriniformes - Atherinidae
Atherina sp. Linnaeus 1758 silverside
 Syngnathiformes - Mullidae