Where: Thrace, Greece (41.1° N, 25.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 24.6° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: MN 4 (16.9 - 16.0 Ma)

• Previously dated at MN 5 but poorly restrained. Based on nearby localities of Karydia and the cricetids, Koufos puts it uncertainly at MN 4.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMPG

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, V. Fahlbusch, G. Saraç and E. Uenay. 1993. Early Miocene faunas from the eastern Mediterranean area. Part III. The genera Deperetomys and Cricetodon with a discussion of the evolutionary history of the Cricetodontini. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 96(2):151-216 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68085: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 02.01.2007, edited by Terri Cleary

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