Apolakkia II (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Dodecannese, Greece (36.0° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 27.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified claystone and lithified, gray, green siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected in 1992-1993; reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: quarrying, ,

Primary reference: G. Theodorou, N. Spjeldnaes, N. M. Hanken, S. E. Lauritzen, E. Velitzelos, A. Athanassiou, and S. Roussiakis. 2000. Description and taphonomic investigations of Neogene Proboscidea from Rhodos, Greece. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helléniques 38:133-156 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202499: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 12.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea -
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811 proboscidean
Skull fragments indet.
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Galericinae indet.
Galericinae indet. Pomel 1848 hedgehog
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Crocidura sp., Blarinini indet., Blarinella sp., Asoriculus gibberodon
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew
Blarinini indet. Kretzoi 1965 red-toothed shrew
Blarinella sp. Thomas 1911 Asiatic short-tailed shrew