Where: Crete, Greece (35.5° N, 24.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 24.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Giannopoulos in 2000; reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Fossils collected during diving in the submerged cave

Primary reference: N. K. Symeonidis, G. E. Theodorou, and B. Gianopoulos. 2000. [The new species Elephas chaniensis from the submerged Pleistocene deposits of Vamos Cave at Chania, Crete]. Bulletin of the Speleological Society of Greece 22(2):95-108 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204294: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 04.09.2019

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