Cardamena: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas meridionalis Nesti 1825
recombined as Mammuthus meridionalis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis arvernensis
Machairodus crenatidens
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus cf. strozzii Forsyth Major 1881
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bos elatus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus dicranius
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
Myomimus sp. Ognev 1924
van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys cf. reidi
van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus cf. dominans
van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Dodecanese County:Kos
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 27.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.7° North, 27.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kardamena, Kardamaena
Database number:204662
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-09-16 13:32:19 Last modified:2019-09-16 13:34:27
Access level:the public Released:2019-09-16 13:32:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
70230. C. Airaghi. 1928. Mammiferi pliocenici dell’isola di Coo (Dodecaneso). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 67(2):125-135 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

70368 A. van der Meulen and T. van Kolfschoten. 1986. Review of the late Turolian to early Biharian mammal faunas from Greece and Turkey. Memorie Societá Geologica Italiana 31:201-211 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]