Where: Crete, Greece (35.5° N, 23.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 23.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Teeth from the Museum of the University of Athens
Primary reference: N. K. Symeonidis and O. Schultz. 1973. Bemerkungen zur neogenen Fischfauna Kretas und Beschreibung zweier Fundstellen mit miozänen Mollusken, Echiniiden etc., Insel Kreta, Griechenland. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 77:141-147 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details
PaleoDB collection 162722: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 02.10.2014, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pycnodonta navicularis" = Neopycnodonte navicularis
"Pycnodonta navicularis" = Neopycnodonte navicularis Brocchi 1814 oyster | |
"Ostrea lamellosa" = Ostrea edulis
"Ostrea lamellosa" = Ostrea edulis Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Chlamys solarium scallop
"Pecten besseri" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
"Amussium cristatum" = Amusium scallop | |
Mammalia | |
Metaxytherium sp. de Christol 1840 dugong | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster altus sand dollar
Clypeaster tauricus sand dollar |