Charkadio Cave, Tilos: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Labriformes
- Scaridae
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Scarus sp.
Gronovius 1763
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Theodorou et al. 2007 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Passeriformes
- Turdidae
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Turdus merula
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo marginata
Schoepff 1792
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas tiliensis n. sp.
Theodorou et al. 2007
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Theodorou et al. 2007 | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon tiliensis | ||||||||||
| Numerous specimens from the entire skeleton | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Rhinolophidae
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Rhinolophus hipposideros
Bechstein 1800
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Rhinolophus blasii
Peters 1867
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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Myotis blythi
Tomes 1857
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Plecotus austriacus
Fischer 1829
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus flavicollis
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Apodemus mystacinus
Danford and Alston 1877
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Crocidura russula
(Herrmann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Martes foina
(Erxleben 1777)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis silvestris
Schreber 1777
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Capra sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Ovis aries
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Dama dama
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Theodorou et al. 2007 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Oxychilidae
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Oxychilus hydatinus
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Dodecanese |
| Coordinates: | 36.4° North, 27.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 27.4° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 140 to 45 ± 3.5 Ka (U/Th) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 182809 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2016-11-25 08:01:13 | Last modified: | 2019-08-26 12:46:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-25 08:01:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69849. | N. Symeonidis, F. Bachmayer, and H. Zapfe. 1973. Grabungen in der Zwergelefanten-Höhle „Charkadio” auf der Insel Tilos (Dodekanes, Griechenland). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 77:133-139 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 60957 | F. Bachmayer and N. Symeonidis. 1975. Schildkrötenreste (Testudo marginata SCHOEPFF) aus der Höhle „Charkadio “auf der Insel Tilos (Dodekanes, Griechenland). Annales Géologiques des Pays Helléniques 26:324-327 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 69361 | G. Theodorou, N. Symeonidis, and E. Stathopoulou. 2007. Elephas tiliensis n. sp. from Tilos island (Dodecanese, Greece). Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 42:19-32 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |