Zourida Cave: Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo marginata
Schoepff 1792
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Bachmayer et al. 1975 | |||||||||
| cretensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta creutzburgi
Kuss 1965
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| recombined as Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Candiacervus sp.
Kuss 1975
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de Vos 1996 | |||||||||
| size II | ||||||||||
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Candiacervus rethymnensis
Kuss 1975
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de Vos 1996 | |||||||||
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Candiacervus ropalophorus
de Vos 1979
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de Vos 1996 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Mus minotaurus
Bate 1942
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Mayhew 1977 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Crete |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 24.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 24.4° East | ||
| Altitude: | 1 meters |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sourida Cave | ||
| Database number: | 182811 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2016-11-25 08:17:40 | Last modified: | 2019-09-02 13:40:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-25 08:17:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69932. | S. E. Kuss. 1970. Abfolge und Alter der Pleistozänen Säugetierfaunen der Insel Kreta. Ber Nat forsch Ges Freiburgi Br 60:35-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 60958 | F. Bachmayer, J. Brinkerink, and N. Symeonidis. 1975. Pleistozäne Schildkröten aus Höhlen der Insel Kreta. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 27:110-122 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen] | |
| 70057 | J. de Vos. 1996. Taxonomy, ancestry and speciation of the endemic Pleistocene deer of Crete compared with the taxoomy ancestry and speciation of Darwin’s finches. Monographs in World Archaeology 28:111-124 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 69931 | D. F. Mayhew. 1977. The endemic Pleistocene murids of Crete I-II. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 80(3):182-214 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |