Kaiafas (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as KAF

Where: Peloponnisos, Greece (37.5° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 21.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• MNQ19, early Pleistocene, Latest Villafranchian, Biharian

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34766: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.09.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Scinciformata indet.2
18 dentaries (UU KF 901, 907, 913, 919).
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.2 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
one premaxilla (UU KF 1004); one trunk vertebra (UU KF 1005)
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo sp.1 Laurenti 1768 toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 frog
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla sp.1 Laurenti 1768 tree frog
Hyla arborea2 Linnaeus 1758 tree frog
one humerus (UU KF 1003)
 Caudata - Urodela
Triturus sp.1 Rafinesque 1815 newt
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
"Glis sp." = Myoxus (Glis) Brisson 1762 dormouse
Glis sackdillingensis Heller 1930 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus mystacinus, "Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Apodemus sylvaticus/flavicolis
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
two types identified - Cervidae indet. A and B.
Cervalces cf. latifrons Johnson 1874 stag moose
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Canis lupus cf. mosbachensis
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet.2 Batsch 1788 turtle
an isolated osteoderm (UU KF 908)
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.2 squamates
two maxillae (UU KF 906, 923); six fragments of indeterminate toothbearing bone (UU KF 930); one indeterminate vertebra (UU KF 926); one caudal vertebra (UU KF 928); one humerus (UU KF 927)
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubrinae indet.2 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
one trunk vertebra (UU KF 910)
 Squamata - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1831 squamates
11 maxillae (UU KF 920-922, 924, 934-937, 941); 13 dentaries (UU KF 915-918, 932, 933, 938, 939); 24 fragments of indeterminate tooth-bearing bones (UU KF 914, 929); one isolated tooth (UU KF 925); one lower jaw (UU KF 931)
 Squamata - Scincidae
Ophiomorus sp.2 Duméril and Bibron 1839 skink
one dentary (UU KF 911).
 Squamata - Anguidae
Pseudopus sp.2 Merrem 1820 legless lizard
one fragment of indeterminate tooth-bearing bone (UU KF 905); one trunk vertebra (UU KF 902); one caudal vertebra (UU KF 912); five osteoderms (UU KF 903, 904)