Limni 6: Villanyian, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Talpidae
Dibolia bifida (Engesser 1980)
Rümke 1985
Desmanella sp. Engesser 1972
Doukas 2005
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys cf. gracilis
Mimomys cf. hajnackensis
Pliomys graecus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Micromys cf. praeminutus
Apodemus dominans
Orientalomys similis (Argyropulo and Pidoplichka 1939)
Rhagapodemus athenensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Dryomys sp. Thomas 1906
Eliomys sp. Wagner 1840
Myomimus cf. roachi Bate 1937
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Evvia
Coordinates: 38.5° North, 24.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 23.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Villanyian
Age range of interval:3.10000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MNQ16/17, Early Villanyian, Middle Villafranchian, Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:LMN
Database number:34590
Authorizer:A. Turner, L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos, L. van den Hoek Ostende
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-11 08:04:06 Last modified:2003-09-12 11:05:29
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-11 08:04:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9135.PACED G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

73905 C. S. Doukas. 2005. Greece. In L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, C. S. Doukas, J. W. F. Reumer (eds.), The Fossil Record of the Eurasian Neogene Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia), Part I. Scripta Geologica Special Issue 5:99-112 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
23416 C. G. Rümke. 1985. A review of fossil and recent Desmaninae (Talpidae, Insectivora). Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins 4:1-241 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]