Stavromenos (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 24.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Teeth from the Museum of the University of Athens

Primary reference: N. K. Symeonidis and O. Schultz. 1973. Bemerkungen zur neogenen Fischfauna Kretas und Beschreibung zweier Fundstellen mit miozänen Mollusken, Echiniiden etc., Insel Kreta, Griechenland. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 77:141-147 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 162721: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Pimiento on 02.10.2014, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Osteichthyes -
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish
Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Bregmacerotidae
Bregmaceros sp. Thompson 1840
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
Lepidopus sp. Gouan 1770
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Alosa sp. Linck 1790 herring
Spratelloides sp. Bleeker 1851 herring
Sardina sp. Antipa 1905 herring