Faliraki North (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Rhodes, Greece (36.4° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Primary reference: K. Agiadi, C. Giamali, A. Girone, P. Moissete, E. Koskeridou and V. Karakitsios. 2020. The Zanclean marine fish fauna and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of a coastal marine setting in the eastern Mediterranean. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:773-792 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207581: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Perciformes -
Aphia minuta perch-like fish
 Spariformes - Centracanthidae
Spicara smaris Linnaeus 1758
 Atheriniformes - Atherinidae
Atherina sp. Linnaeus 1758 silverside
 Carangiformes - Carangidae
Trachurus mediterraneus Steindachner 1868
 Gobiiformes - Gobiidae
Gobiidae indet. Bonaparte 1832 goby
Gobius sp. Linnaeus 1758 goby
 Gadiformes - Phycidae
 Myctophiformes - Myctophidae
Ceratoscopelus maderensis Lowe 1839 Madeira lantern fish