Arnissa (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Pella, Greece (40.8° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Saale/Riss glacial zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• On the basis of the evolutionary stage of the species present, the deposit is considered to be Late Pleistocene and to date from the penultimate (Saale/Riss) glacial.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; brown claystone

• The fissure deposit consists of angular limestone fragments separated by brown clay containing small calcareous concretions and scattered vertebrate remains.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by H. de Bruijn and C. G. Riimke

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: D. F. Mayhew. 1978. Late Pleistocene small mammals from Arnissa (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 81(3):302-321 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204957: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus citellus ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
Spalax microphthalmus Gülden 1770 greater mole rat
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus (Pitymys) sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus (Microtus) arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus (Microtus) guentheri Danford and Alston 1880 Günther's vole
Myodes glareolus Schreber 1780 vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Cricetulus migratorius Pallas 1773 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Dryomys nitedula Pallas 1778 dormouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura russula Herrmann 1780 Greater white-toothed shrew
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 common shrew