Monasteri (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (41.2° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lefkon Formation, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; conglomerate and sandstone

• polymict poorly sorted conglomerate containing pebbles of schist, gneiss and granite. This coarse-grained series grades upwards into arkosic sands and finally into clays with occasional lignites

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn. 1989. Smaller mammals from the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene of the Strimon basin, Greece. Part 1. Rodentia and Lagomorpha. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 28(2-3):189-195 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31940: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 29.05.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobates cf. syriacus2 Boettger 1889 Syrian spadefoot toad
 Salientia -
Latonia sp.2 von Meyer 1843 frog
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Hylopetes "sp. A" Thomas 1908 squirrel
1 or 2 specimens
 Rodentia - Muridae
Micromys bendai van de Weerd 1979 harvest mouse
approx.
Occitanomys androveri mouse
approx.
Pseudomeriones megistos3 Sylvestrou and Kostopoulos 2007 gerbil
approx.
Apodemus gudrunae van de Weerd 1976 Eurasian field mouse
approx.
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Cricetus" "sp. A" Leske 1779 mouse
approx.
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Myomimus maritsensis de Bruijn et al. 1970 dormouse
approx.
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys cf. carpathicus Schaub and Zapfe 1953 rodent
1 or 2 specimens
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853 pika
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae "sp. B"1 Fischer 1814 shrew