Kharoumes III: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Kritimys catreus
(Bate 1912)
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Mayhew 1977 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas antiquus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Bate 1907 | |||||||||
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= Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi
Kuss 1965
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Athanassiou et al. 2019 | |||||||||
| Previous identifications of this occurrence as Elephas antiquus were based on the erroneous identification in Bate (1907) of molars from Karoúmbes as deciduous ones and, thus, belonging to the larger, continental species | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Crete | County: | Lasithi |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 26.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.1° North, 26.2° East | ||||
| Altitude: | 5 meters |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Karoumbes 3, Karoumes 3 | ||
| Database number: | 204086 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2019-08-30 13:22:43 | Last modified: | 2019-08-30 13:25:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-30 13:22:43 |
| 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:
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |