Gumbes B cave (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 24.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. D. M. Weesie. 1988. The Quaternary avifauna of Crete, Greece. Palaeovertebrata 18:1-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192965: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.04.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus listeri3 van der Geer 2018 deer
Candiacervus rethymnensis1 Kuss 1975 deer
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus minotaurus2 Bate 1942 house mouse
Aves
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
Falco tinnunculus Linnaeus 1758 Common kestrel
 Passeriformes - Turdidae
Turdus "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1758 true thrush
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus corax Linnaeus 1758 common raven
Corvus monedula Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian jackdaw
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove
C. livia/oenas
Columba palumbus Linnaeus 1758 common wood-pigeon
Columba livia Gmelin 1789 rock pigeon
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto alba Scopoli 1769 barn owl