Where: Greece (37.4° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 22.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Weighted mean of several optically stimulated luminescence dates
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, fine-grained, brown, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: D. Michailidis, G. E. Konidaris, A. Athanassiou, E. Panagopoulou, and K. Harvati. 2018. The ornithological remains from Marathousa 1 (Middle Pleistocene; Megalopolis Basin, Greece). Quaternary International 497:85-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 199938: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.02.2019, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Gallinula chloropus Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian moorhen | |
Mareca strepera Linnaeus 1758 gadwall
Anas acuta Linnaeus 1758 northern pintail
Anas cf. platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
Spatula clypeata Linnaeus 1758 northern shoveler | |
cf. Cinclus cinclus Linnaeus 1758 white-throated dipper | |
Nycticorax nycticorax Linnaeus 1758 black-crowned night heron | |
Mammalia | |