Where: Crete, Greece (35.3° N, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 24.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: J. Gaudant, B. Delrieau, M. D. Dermitzakis and N. K. Symeonidis. 1994. Découverte d’une ichthyofaune marine dans les diatomites du Pliocène supérieur (Plaisancien) des environs d’Héraklion (Crète centrale, Grèce). Comptes Rendus Academie de Seances Paris 319:589-596 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207357: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2020, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
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Laemonema sp.1 Guenther 1862 | |
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage 1880 | |
Epigonus aff. denticulatus1 Dieuzeide 1950 | |
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Grammonus ater1 Risso 1810 | |
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Gobius cf. paganellus1, Gobius sp.1, Gobius niger1, Lesueurigobius friesii1, Lesueurigobius sanzi1, Lesueurigobius suerii1, Deltentosteus aff. quadrimaculatus1
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Belone sp. Oken 1816 | |
Lepidopus sp. Gouan 1770 | |
Syngnathus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pipefish | |
Ceratoscopelus maderensis1, Myctophum fitchi1, Scopelopsis pliocenicus1, Notoscopelus resplendens1, Lobianchia dofleini1, Diaphus aff. adenomus1, Diaphus cavallonis1, Diaphus taaningi1, Diaphus holti1, Diaphus aff. splendidus1, Hygophum hygomii1, Hygophum benoiti1
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Chlorophthalmus agassizi1 Bonaparte 1840 | |
Alosa sp. Linck 1790 herring
? Sardina sp. Antipa 1905 herring
Spratelloides sp. Bleeker 1851 herring | |
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Otolithes | |
"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus1
"Gadiculus labiatus" = Otolithus labiatus1 Schubert 1905 |