Kalymnos: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Jordanomys majori
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus
(Falconer and Cautley 1847)
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Masseti 2006 | |||||||||
| recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus | ||||||||||
| third inferior molar, Fig. 3 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciurus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Spalax nehringi
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Mus aegeaus
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Meriones tristrami
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Apodemus sp.
Kaup 1829
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| Apodemus sylvaticus/flavicolis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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Mesocricetus aureatus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Myomimus roachi
Bate 1937
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Kalymnos island |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 27.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.0° North, 27.0° 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
| Stratigraphy comments: Biharian, Latest Villafranchian, Early Pleistocene, MNQ 19. |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | KLM | ||
| Database number: | 34770 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2003-09-23 08:40:43 | Last modified: | 2003-09-23 11:40:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-23 08:40:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9135. | PACED | G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
| 70297 | M. Masseti. 2006. Deer and dwarf elephants of the Dodecanese. The Holocene redefinition of the faunal ecosystems of Rhodes and other nearby islands. In V. Karageorghis, A. Giannikouri (eds.), Conservation and presentation of the cultural and natural heritage of the large islands of the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the International Symposium, Rhodes, 2005. Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Institute of Aegean Studies 113-122 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |