Kalo Chorafi (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Crete, Greece (35.4° N, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 24.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; gray claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Kuss in 1965

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. E. Kuss. 1965. Eine Pleistozäne Säugetierfauna der Insel Kreta. Berichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg im Breisgau 55:271-348 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204189: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Neither Testudo nor Emys
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Loxodonta creutzburgi n. sp." = Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi
"Loxodonta creutzburgi n. sp." = Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi Kuss 1965 elephant
Inferior molar, Geological-Paleontological InstituteBurg / Br., No. 22/1963, Plate II
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Candiacervus reumeri2 van der Geer 2018 deer
NHMC K.C.71.63 (Kalo Chorafi, right shed antler fragment; Kuss, 1965, figure 3c)
Candiacervus cf. reumeri2 van der Geer 2018 deer
AMPG(V) 2138 (Kalo Chorafi, right shed antler)
Candiacervus listeri2 van der Geer 2018 deer
Candiacervus ropalophorus2 de Vos 1979 deer
AMPG(V) 2139 (Kalo Chorafi, distal fragment), NHMC F538/103 (Kalo Chorafi, beam fragment), NHMC KC.111/63.227 (Kalo Chorafi, beam fragment),
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
 Rodentia - Muridae
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
Mus minotaurus1 Bate 1942 house mouse