Arnissa (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Pella, Greece (40.8° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Saale/Riss glacial zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• On the basis of the evolutionary stage of the species present, the deposit is considered to be Late Pleistocene and to date from the penultimate (Saale/Riss) glacial.

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; brown claystone

• The fissure deposit consists of angular limestone fragments separated by brown clay containing small calcareous concretions and scattered vertebrate remains.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by H. de Bruijn and C. G. Riimke

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: D. F. Mayhew. 1978. Late Pleistocene small mammals from Arnissa (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 81(3):302-321 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204957: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad
 Salientia - Ranidae
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura russula Herrmann 1780 Greater white-toothed shrew
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew
Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 common shrew
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Sicista subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetulus migratorius Pallas 1773 mouse
Myodes glareolus Schreber 1780 vole
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Microtus (Pitymys) sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus (Microtus) arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Microtus (Microtus) guentheri Danford and Alston 1880 Günther's vole
 Rodentia - Muridae
Spalax microphthalmus Gülden 1770 greater mole rat
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Dryomys nitedula Pallas 1778 dormouse
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus citellus ground squirrel