near Trypiti River (Pleistocene of Greece)

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

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Muridae
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)
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Palaeoloxodon lomolinoi n. sp. van der Geer et al. 2014 elephant
AMPG 999 (Fig. 5), an isolated maxilla preserving both third molars (M3)