Kumi (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (38.6° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified limestone

• Basin roughly 3 km by 3 km. Kymi-Aliveri supra-detachment basin.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: F. Unger. 1867. Die Fossile Flora Von Kumi Auf Der Insel Euboea. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe 27:27-90 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144526: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 10.05.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Apidae
"Bombus pristinus n. sp." = Bombus (Cullumanobombus) pristinus
"Bombus pristinus n. sp." = Bombus (Cullumanobombus) pristinus Unger 1867 bumble bee
 Coleoptera - Carabidae
"Calosoma exscrobiculatum" = Calosoma escrobiculatum1
"Calosoma exscrobiculatum" = Calosoma escrobiculatum1 Heer 1860 ground beetle
 Coleoptera - Hydrophilidae
Hydrophilus vexatorius1 Heer 1847 water scavenger beetle
 Coleoptera -
Helops atticus n. sp.1 Redtenbacher 1867 beetle
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Penthetria fuchsi n. sp.2 Handlirsch 1907 march fly