Karnezeika: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greece
collected 2005

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Kalymnomys sp.
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Pyrrhocorax sp. Tunstall 1771
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816
Reptilia - Ophidia
Ophidia indet. Latreille 1804
Reptilia
Lacertoidea indet. Camp 1923
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Gervais 1850)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi 1938)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942
Mammalia - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
Mammalia - Bovidae
Pliotragus sp. Kretzoi 1941
Gazella borbonica
Gallogoral meneghinii
Gazellospira torticornis
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Kislangia sp. Kretzoi 1954
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus cf. dominans
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Papionini indet.
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 23.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 23.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: the fossils are enclosed in fine-grained red sediments, which filled a small doline in a late Triassic – early Jurassic limestone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2005
Collection method comments: The locality of Karnezeika has been discovered in 2005 and the collected material has been stored in both Athens Museum of Palaeontology and Geology (AMPG) and the Laboratory of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Department of Geology, University of Patras
Metadata
Database number:202122
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2019-06-25 08:18:43 Last modified:2019-06-25 08:18:43
Access level:the public Released:2019-06-25 08:18:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69234. M. Kokotini, N. Kargopoulos, G. Iliopoulos, S. Roussiakis, P. Skandalos, D. Michailidis, G. Svorligkou, P. Kampouridis, and G. Theodorou. 2019. Karnezeika (Argolis, Peloponnese): preliminary data concerning a new Villafranchian locality of Southern Greece. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 7:1-2 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]