Rema Marmara (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.8° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lefkon Formation, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• lowermost unit of the middle/upper Turolian section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; conglomerate and silty claystone

• fluvial conglomerates, towards the top they show marine influence, and conglomerates are overlain by silty clays, travertinous limestones and gypsum.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn. 1989. Smaller mammals from the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of the Strimon basin, Greece. Part 1. Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28(2-3):189-195 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32190: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.06.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.1 frog
eight bone fragments (UU RMA 401–UU RMA 405)
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp.2 Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Latonia sp.2 von Meyer 1843 painted frog
Reptilia
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet.1 Bonaparte 1831 squamates
two dentaries (UU RMA 302 and UU RMA 303).
 Testudines -
Testudinoidea indet.1 Gray 1825 turtle
a shell fragment (UU RMA 301)
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Rodentia - Muridae
Micromys bendai van de Weerd 1979 harvest mouse
Occitanomys cf. neutrum de Bruijn 1976 mouse
Occitanomys brailloni Michaux 1969 mouse
Parapodemus gaudryi Dames 1883 mouse
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -