Zourida Cave (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as Sourida Cave

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 24.4° E)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. E. Kuss. 1970. Abfolge und Alter der Pleistozänen Säugetierfaunen der Insel Kreta. Ber Nat forsch Ges Freiburgi Br 60:35-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182811: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 25.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo marginata1 Schoepff 1792 Marginated tortoise
cretensis
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus sp.2 Kuss 1975 deer
size II
Candiacervus ropalophorus2 de Vos 1979 deer
Candiacervus rethymnensis2 Kuss 1975 deer
 Rodentia - Muridae
Mus minotaurus3 Bate 1942 house mouse
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Loxodonta creutzburgi" = Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi
"Loxodonta creutzburgi" = Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi Kuss 1965 elephant