Kastoria 2: Pliocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus dominans
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys reidi
Mimomys pitymyoides
Mimomys newtoni
Mimomys pliocaenicus (Forsyth Major 1889)
Clethrionomys sp. Tilesius 1850
Pliomys episcopalis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Myomimus roachi Bate 1937
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 21.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 21.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Pliocene
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MNQ 18, late Villafranchian, late Villanyian, Late Pliocene
Lithology and environment
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:KAS
Database number:34653
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-15 07:53:15 Last modified:2003-09-15 11:40:26
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-15 07:53:15
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]