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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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 - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
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),
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
 Rodentia - Muridae
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
Mus minotaurus1 Bate 1942 house mouse
Aves
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
Columba sp. Linnaeus 1758 dove
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Neither Testudo nor Emys