Kastoria 2 (Pliocene of Greece)

Also known as KAS

Where: Greece (40.5° N, 21.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• MNQ 18, late Villafranchian, late Villanyian, Late Pliocene

Environment/lithology: fissure fill

Size class: 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 34653: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus dominans Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Mimomys pliocaenicus Forsyth Major 1889 vole
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Myomimus roachi Bate 1937 Mouse-tailed dormouse