Amnissos (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.3° N, 25.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Richard Weixler in 1990; reposited in the NHMW

Primary reference: J. Gaudant. 2001. Amnissos: un gisement clé pour la connaissance de l'ichthyofaune du Pliocène supérieur de Crète. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie 102:131-187 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207303: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.01.2020, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes -
Dasyatoidea indet. Whitley 1940 stingray
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
 Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae
Maurolicus cf. muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside
 Gadiformes - Moridae
Gadella sp. Lowe 1843
 Gadiformes - Gadidae
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros cf. albyi Sauvage 1880
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
 Labriformes - Labridae
Labridae indet. Cuvier 1816
 Tetraodontiformes - Monacanthidae
 Perciformes -
Percoidei indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Sparidae
Boops sp. Cuvier 1814 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Serranidae
Serranus sp. Cuvier 1817 perch-like fish
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Scombridae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Scomber sp. Linnaeus 1758
Scomberomorus sp. Lacépède 1802
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Lepidopus sp. Gouan 1770
 Syngnathiformes - Dactylopteridae
 Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Syngnathus cf. albyi Sauvage 1870 pipefish
 Syngnathiformes - Centriscidae
 Beloniformes - Belonidae
? Scomberesox sp. Lacépède 1803
Belone sp. Oken 1816
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Caranx sp. Lacépède 1802
? Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Myctophidae indet.2 Gill 1893 lanternfish
Notoscopelus resplendens1 Richardson 1845 lanternfish
Myctophum sp. Rafinesque 1810 lanternfish
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupeidae indet. Cuvier 1817 herring
Alosa cf. elongata Agassiz 1842 herring
Spratelloides cf. gracilis Temminck and Schlegel 1846 herring
Sardina cf. pilchardus Walbaum 1792 herring