Sarakenos Cave (Holocene of Greece)

Where: Boeotia, Greece (38.5° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• From Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: A. Pereswiet-Soltan. 2016. First record of serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Early-Middle Holocene in southern Europe (Boeotia - Greece). Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 1-3 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203845: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 26.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis blythii vesper bat
Myotis myotis Borkhausen 1797 greater mouse-eared bat
/blythii
Nyctalus noctula Schreber 1774 vesper bat
 Chiroptera - Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus hipposideros Bechstein 1800 horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum Schreber 1774 greater horseshoe bat