Cape Maleka 1: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Greece
collected by Paul Yves Sondaar 1973

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas creticus n. sp. Bate 1907
recombined as Mammuthus creticus
AMPG-901: upper right third molar (M3)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Rattus kiridus n. sp. Bate 1942
Bate 1942
recombined as Kritimys kiridus
BMNH M10555 (holotype) maxilla with M1–M3
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Crete Island County:Chania
Coordinates: 35.6° North, 24.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 24.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.12600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Mammuthus creticus is the geologically oldest of the elephant species identified on Crete, and belongs to the Early - early Middle Pleistocene endemic fauna of the island.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: It is a strongly consolidated clayey sediment outcrop that was accumulated in a presently eroded cave.
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMPG
Collectors:Paul Yves Sondaar Collection dates:1973
Metadata
Database number:202421
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-07-10 08:04:53 Last modified:2019-08-28 08:55:31
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-10 08:04:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69893. D. Bate. 1907. On elephant remains from Crete, with description of Elephas creticus n. sp. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907:238-250 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

69360 A. Athanassiou, A. A. E. van der Geer, and G. A. Lyras. 2019. Pleistocene insular Proboscidea of the Eastern Mediterranean: A review and update. Quaternary Science Reviews 218:306-321 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69894 D. M. A. Bate. 1942. New Pleistocene Murinæ from Crete. Journal of Natural History 9(49):41-49 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]