Where: Greece (38.4° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 23.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MN 3 mammal zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• tentatively estimated between 18 and 17.5 Ma
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, A.J. van der Meulen, and G. Katsikatsos. 1980. The mammals from the Lower Miocene of Aliveri (Island of Evia, Greece). Part 1. The Sciuridae. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 83(3):241-261 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68032: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 27.12.2006, edited by Philip Mannion, Evangelos Vlachos and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet.4 crocodilian AL1a: six isolated teeth (UU AL 3536–UU AL 3541). AL1b: ten isolated teeth (UU AL 3576–UU AL 3585). AL1980NQ: an isolated tooth (UU AL 3556).
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Squamata indet.4 squamates AL1a: four fragments of tooth-bearing bones (UU AL 3522, UU AL 3523, UU AL 3525, and UU AL 3526), a caudal ver- tebra (UU AL 3527), and fragments of a vertebra and a maxilla (UU AL 3528). AL1b: a pterygoid (UU AL 3588) and a humerus (UU AL 3589).
Scincomorpha indet.4 squamates AL1a: three dentaries (UU AL 3519, UU AL 3521, and UU AL 3524). AL1980NQ: a dentary (UU AL 3549).
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Anguinae indet.4 Gray 1825 squamates AL1a: 60 osteoderms (UU AL 3506–UU AL 3518). AL1b: 14 osteoderms (UU AL 3562–UU AL 3575). AL1980NQ: 22 osteoderms (UU AL 3543–UU AL 3548).
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Lacertidae indet.4 Bonaparte 1831 squamates AL1a: a fragment of tooth-bearing bone (UU AL 3520). AL1b: a dentary (UU AL 3586) and ve fragments of tooth-bear- ing bones (UU AL 3557–UU AL 3561). AL1980NQ: a fragment of tooth-bearing bone (UU AL 3542).
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Chamaeleonidae indet.4 Gray 1825 chameleon AL1b: a fragment of tooth-bearing bone (UU AL 3502); AL1980NQ: a fragment of tooth-bearing bone (UU AL 3503).
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Serpentes indet.4 snake AL1a: a fragment of the anterior part of a le pterygoid (UU AL 3529). AL1980NQ: a vertebra (UU AL 3591).
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Mammalia | |
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Myxomygale engesseri5, "Desmanodon antiquus" = Desmanodon antiquus9, "Desmanodon meuleni" = Desmanodon antiquus8
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Galerix symeonidisi n. sp.3
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"Mirabella tuberosa n. sp." = Mirrabella tuberosa2, Democricetodon franconicus7, Megacricetodon hellenicus9, Megacricetodon primitivus7, Cricetodon aliveriensis n. sp.7, Eumyarion weinfurteri7
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Heramys eviensis n. gen. n. sp.6
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Glirudinus euryodon8, Glis galitopouli8, Glirulus (Glirulus) diremptus8, Bransatoglis cf. fugax8, Bransatoglis complicatus9, Glirulus (Paraglirulus) agelakisi8, Paraglirulus agelakisi9, Microdyromys sp.8
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Anomalomys aliveriensis n. sp.6
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Aliveria brinkerinki n. gen. n. sp., Aliveria luteyni n. sp., Tamias eviensis n. sp., Blackia miocaenica, Palaeosciurus aff. fissurae, Miopetaurista dehmi
Aliveria brinkerinki n. gen. n. sp. de Bruijn et al. 1980 squirrel
Aliveria luteyni n. sp. de Bruijn et al. 1980 squirrel
Tamias eviensis n. sp. de Bruijn et al. 1980 chipmunk
Blackia miocaenica Mein 1970 squirrel
Miopetaurista dehmi de Bruijn et al. 1980 squirrel | |
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Anura indet.4 frog AL1a: an ilium (UU AL 3595), a trunk vertebra (UU AL 3553), and three indeterminate elements (UU AL 3554, UU AL 3594). AL1980NQ: an indeterminate element (UU AL 3597).
cf. Latonia sp.4 von Meyer 1843 frog AL1a: an atlas (UU AL 3593). AL1980NQ: three max- illae (UU AL 3552, UU AL 3555, and UU AL 3596), and a right ilium (UU AL 3598).
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