Also known as Naxos
Where: Naxos, Greece (37.0° N, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 25.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: Curated at the Museum of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece
Primary reference: A. van der Geer, G. A. Lyras, L. W. Hoek Ostende, J. Vos, and H. Drinia. 2014. A dwarf elephant and a rock mouse on Naxos (Cyclades, Greece) with a revision of the palaeozoogeography of the Cycladic Islands (Greece) during the Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 404:133-144 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203848: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 26.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Apodemus cf. mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse Thirteen isolated upper first molars (NX1–NX9, NX11–NX14), eight isolated upper second molars (NX31, NX32, NX34–NX40), four isolated upper third molars (NX41–NX44), four isolated lower first molars (NX51–54), two mandibles with first and second molars (NX56, NX58)
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Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi n. sp.
Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi n. sp. van der Geer et al. 2014 elephant AMPG 999 (Fig. 5), an isolated maxilla preserving both third molars (M3)
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