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
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Elephas creticus n. sp.
Bate 1907
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recombined as Mammuthus creticus | ||||||||||
AMPG-901: upper right third molar (M3) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Rattus kiridus n. sp.
Bate 1942
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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] |