Koumpes Cave III (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as Gumbes Cave III

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

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kuss in 1970; reposited in the AMPG

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 204188: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi Kuss 1965 elephant
various thoracic vertebrae