PBDB Collection

Rhodes Island (Pleistocene to of Greece)

Also known as APO2

Where: Greece (36.1° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 27.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Apolakkia Formation, Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• crappy, it's surface collected. Formation has an estimated thickness of 500m

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; calcareous, carbonaceous claystone and silty, conglomeratic sandstone

• "...lithological and sedimentary structures suggest a depositional environment of lakes and marshes (flood-basin environments) intersected by braiding and meandering river channels."

• a succession of variegated clays, marls, lignites, lignitic clays and this intercalations of siltstone and sandstone. Intercalations of sandstone and conglomerate constitute up to about 10% of the lithology of the formation

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve,

• collection combines screen-washed specimens from one specific locality (APO2) with those found as float in the local area

Primary reference: A. van de Weerd, J. W. F. Reumer, and J. Vos. 1982. Pliocene mammals from the Apolakkia Formation (Rhodes, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 85(1):89-112 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34607: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Plantae indet. Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Mammalia
Proboscidea - Proboscidea	Proboscidea indet. Proboscidea indet. proboscidean indeterminable parts of cheekteeth and tusks
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Rhinocerotidae indet. Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros part of a p2
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Hipparion aff. crassum Hipparion aff. crassum Gervais 1859 hipparionine horse 3 series P2-M3, 5P2, 9P3or4, 10M1or2, 5M3, 2 series p2-m3, 2p2, 7p3or4, 5m1or2, 6m3, two fragmentary milk-molars, one calcaneum, one astragalus, a fragmentary metatarsal III
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Cervidae indet., "Cervus aff. philisi" = Metacervocerus philisi Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer fragmentary upper molar "Cervus aff. philisi" = Metacervocerus philisi Mennecart et al. 2017 deer 2M1, 1M2, 2M3, 2 series p2-m3, 1p3, 2m1, 1m2, 2m3, 3 calcanea, 3 astragali, 1 cubonaviculare, 3 phalanges I, 1 phalanx II, 2 fragmentary phalanges III, a distal fragment of a humerus and radius and 2 distal fragments of tibiae, i almost complete antler, 8 antler fragments
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Gazella sp. Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle m1or2
Carnivora - Hyaenidae	Hyaena pyrenaica Hyaena pyrenaica hyaena part of left mandible with p4 and m1, incomlete P4
Carnivora - Canidae	Canidae indet. Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid right p4
Theriamorpha - Soricidae	Crocidura sp., Episoriculus gibberodon, Blarinella sp., Blarinini indet. Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew one isolated right m3 Episoriculus gibberodon Petenyi 1864 red-toothed shrew fragmentary right lower incisor, right m1 and m2 Blarinella sp. Thomas 1911 Asiatic short-tailed shrew lower incisors Blarinini indet. Kretzoi 1965 red-toothed shrew two left m1 and three fragments of lower molars
Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae	"Echinosoricinae indet." = Galericinae "Echinosoricinae indet." = Galericinae Pomel 1848 hedgehog trigonid of a right m3
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Dolomys sp., Mimomys occitanus Dolomys sp. Nehring 1898 mouse m1 Mimomys occitanus Thaler 1955 vole m1, M1-3
Rodentia - Muridae	Apodemus aff. dominans Apodemus aff. dominans Eurasian field mouse from APO2, M1-3, m1-3
Rodentia - Castoridae	Castor fiber Castor fiber Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian beaver i, 2p4, I, 2P4, M2
Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae	Ochotonoides sp. Ochotonoides sp. Teilhard de Jardin and Young 1931 pika a p3 and other isolated teeth
Gastropoda
Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae	Viviparus sp. Viviparus sp. Montfort 1810 snail
Cerithioidea - Melanopsidae	Melanopsis sp. Melanopsis sp. Férussac 1807 snail
Cerithioidea - Thiaridae	"Melania sp." = Thiara "Melania sp." = Thiara Röding 1798 snail
Heterostropha - Valvatidae	Valvata sp. Valvata sp. Müller 1774 snail
Neritoidea - Neritidae	Nerita sp. Nerita sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail