Siteia I: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae
Discoglossus sp. Otth 1837
Sanchiz 1998
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Pelophylax ridibundus
Sanchiz 1998
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Clemmys cf. caspica (Gmelin 1774)
    = Mauremys rivulata Valenciennes 1833
Vlachos 2015
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus creutzburgi Boekschoten and Sondaar 1966
Spaan 1996
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Kritimys aff. kiridus (Bate 1942)
Mayhew 1977
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829
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]