Where: Pella, Greece (40.8° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 21.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Saale/Riss glacial zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• On the basis of the evolutionary stage of the species present, the deposit is considered to be Late Pleistocene and to date from the penultimate (Saale/Riss) glacial.
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; brown claystone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by H. de Bruijn and C. G. Riimke
Collection methods: sieve,
Primary reference: D. F. Mayhew. 1978. Late Pleistocene small mammals from Arnissa (Macedonia, Greece). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 81(3):302-321 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 204957: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 30.09.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Apodemus sp. Kaup 1829 Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
Spalax microphthalmus Gülden 1770 greater mole rat | |
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes, Myodes glareolus, Arvicola cantiana, Microtus (Pitymys) sp., Microtus sp., Microtus nivalis, Microtus (Microtus) guentheri, Microtus (Microtus) arvalis, Lagurus lagurus, Mesocricetus newtoni, Cricetulus migratorius
"Clethrionomys glareolus" = Myodes vole
Myodes glareolus Schreber 1780 vole
Arvicola cantiana vole
Microtus (Pitymys) sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus nivalis vole
Microtus (Microtus) guentheri Danford and Alston 1880 Günther's vole
Microtus (Microtus) arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Lagurus lagurus mouse
Mesocricetus newtoni mouse
Cricetulus migratorius Pallas 1773 mouse | |
Sicista subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse | |
Dryomys nitedula Pallas 1778 dormouse | |
Spermophilus citellus ground squirrel | |
Ochotona pusilla pika | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Crocidura leucodon Hermann 1780 white-toothed shrew
Crocidura russula Herrmann 1780 Greater white-toothed shrew
Sorex araneus Linnaeus 1758 common shrew
Sorex minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew | |
Amphibia | |
Pelobates sp. Wagler 1830 spadefoot toad | |
Bufo viridis Laurenti 1768 European green toad |