Siteia I: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Discoglossidae
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Discoglossus sp.
Otth 1837
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Sanchiz 1998 | ||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Ranidae
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Pelophylax ridibundus
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Sanchiz 1998 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Clemmys cf. caspica
(Gmelin 1774)
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= Mauremys rivulata
Valenciennes 1833
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Vlachos 2015 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus creutzburgi
Boekschoten and Sondaar 1966
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Spaan 1996 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Kritimys aff. kiridus
(Bate 1942)
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Mayhew 1977 | ||||||
Apodemus sp.
Kaup 1829
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Mayhew 1977 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greece | State/province: | Crete |
Coordinates: | 35.2° North, 26.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 26.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 202328 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2019-07-05 07:50:54 | Last modified: | 2019-07-05 07:50:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-07-05 07:50:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
69330. | H. P. Brinkerink. 1996. Tortoises and turtles from the Pleistocene of CreteTortoises and turtles from the Pleistocene of Crete. In D. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers, Monographs in World Archaeology 28:207-209 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
69931 | D. F. Mayhew. 1977. The endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete I-II. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 80(3):182-214 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
50079 | B. Sanchiz. 1998. Salientia. In P. Wellnhofer (ed.), Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie 4 [C. Boyd/C. Boyd] | |
70058 | A. Spaan. 1996. Hippopotamus creutzburgi: the case of the Cretan Hippopotamus. In D. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene fauna of Crete and its first settlers 28:99-111 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
65163 | E. Vlachos. 2015. The Fossil Chelonians of Greece. Systematics - Evolution - Stratigraphy - Palaeoecology. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 173:1-479 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |