Plakias: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Alytidae
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cf. Alytidae indet.
Fitzinger 1843
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
UU PL 701, a fragmentary trunk vertebra; UU PL 702, a single, partial tibiofibula | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Gliridae indet.
Muirhead 1819
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Glirudinus sp.
de Bruijn 1966
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de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 | |||||||||
Glirulus werenfelsi
Engesser 1972
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilinus cf. bredai
(von Meyer 1848)
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de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 | |||||||||
cf. Hylopetes sp.
Thomas 1908
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1 specimen | |||||||||
? Forsythia sp.
Mein 1970
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de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 | |||||||||
cf. Blackia sp.
Mein 1970
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de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyops aff. catalaunicus
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29 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetinae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Democricetodon cretensis n. sp.
de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972
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de Bruijn and Meulenkamp 1972 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
as subspecies of affinis | ||||||||||
Eumyarion leemanni
Hartenberger 1966
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Erinaceinae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Lantanotherium sanmigueli
Villalta and Crusafont 1944
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Paenelimnoecus sp.
Baudelot 1972
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Mauremys sp.
Gray 1870
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 53 specimens | ||||||||
NHMC 21.7.3.1618, part of anterior lobe; NHMC 21.7.3.1619, right xiphiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1620, left hypoplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1621, group of 15 plastral fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1622-1624, three neurals; NHMC 21.7.3.1625-1626, left hyoplastron fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1627, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1628, costal fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1629, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1630-1631 [prseumably incorrectly stated in text as "1931" given sequential numbers here], two costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1632, left epiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1633, left hyoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1634, group of 23 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1635, right epiplastron; NHMC 21.7.3.1636-1637 [presumably incorrectly stated as "1937"], two left epiplastra; NHMC 21.7.3.1638-1639 [presumably incorrectly stated as "1939"], two costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1640, two costals in association; NHMC 21.7.3.1641, right peripheral 1; NHMC 21.7.3.1642, right xiphiplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1643, right hypoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1644, left hyoplastron fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1645-1647, three costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1648, group of approximately 80 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1649, neural fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1650, group of 10 shell fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1651, neural I; NHMC 21.7.3.1652-1665, 14 costal fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1666-1668, three peripheral fragments; NHMC 21.7.3.1669, group of 50 shell fragments; UU PL 705, possible hyoplastron fragment | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
"Pan-Trionychidae indet.". UU PL 703, costal fragment; UU PL 704, costal fragment; NHMC 21.7.3.1670, neural; NHMC 21.7.3.1671, plastron fragment | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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? Natricinae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UU PL 734, a single precloacal vertebra | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Amphisbaenia indet.
(Gray 1844)
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UU PL 733, a single presacral vertebra | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Georgalis et al. 2016 | 29 specimens | ||||||||
UU PL 706 to UU PL 732, 27 isolated teeth; UU PL 735 and UU PL 736, two phalanges | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greece | State/province: | Crete |
Coordinates: | 35.2° North, 24.4° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.9° North, 24.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | Mammal zone: | MN 9 |
Age range of interval: | 11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The small mammal remains are derived from grayish clays overlying beige to brown colored clays with calcretes in a shallow gully complex on a partly covered dipslope to the southeast of Plakias | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Plakia | ||
Database number: | 183151 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | ||
Created: | 2016-12-05 15:02:10 | Last modified: | 2021-12-16 03:43:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-12-05 15:02:10 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
61130. | H. de Bruijn, C. S. Doukas, L. W. Hoek Ostende and W. J. Zachariasse. 2012. New finds of rodents and insectivores from the Upper Miocene at Plakias (Crete, Greece). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 131:61-75 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
70466 | H. de Bruijn and J. E. Meulenkamp. 1972. Late Miocene rodents from the Pandanassa formation (prov. Rethymnon), Crete, Greece. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 75(1):54-60 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
78894 | G. L. Georgalis and M. Delfino. 2022. The Fossil Record of Crocodylians (Reptilia: Crocodylia) in Greece. In E. Vlachos (ed.), Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 1 237-243 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
61132 | G. L. Georgalis, A. Villa, E. Vlachos and M. Delfino. 2016. Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Plakias, Crete: A glimpse into the earliest late Miocene herpetofaunas of southeastern Europe. Geobios 49:433-444 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |