Where: Crete, Greece (35.0° N, 25.8° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 25.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Makrilia Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by Richard and Getrude Weixler in the 1970s; reposited in the NHMW
Primary reference: J. Gaudant. 2004. Additions à l'ichthyofaune tortonienne du bassin de Ierapetra (Crète orientale, Grèce). Annales Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 105:257-285 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207356: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2020, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Maurolicus muelleri Gmelin 1789 Mueller's pearlside | |
Cyclothone indet. Goode and Bean 1883
Cyclothone gaudanti Prikryl and Carnevale 2017 | |
Bregmaceros albyi Sauvage 1880 | |
Capros sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Percoidei indet. Bleeker 1859 perch-like fish | |
"Lepidopus cf. glarisianus" = Anenchelum glarisianum, Lepidopus sp.
"Lepidopus cf. glarisianus" = Anenchelum glarisianum de Blainville 1818
Lepidopus sp. Gouan 1770 | |
Syngnathus kaehsbaueri pipefish
Syngnathus cf. albyi Sauvage 1870 pipefish | |
Trachurus sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
Arnoglossus sp. Bleeker 1862 flatfish | |
"Alectis psarianosi" = Mene psarianosi
"Alectis psarianosi" = Mene psarianosi Symeonidis 1969 moonfish | |
Myctophum licatae Sauvage 1880 lanternfish | |
Alosa sp. Linck 1790 herring
Alosa cf. crassa Sauvage 1873 herring
Spratelloides sp. Bleeker 1851 herring
? Sardina cf. crassa Sauvage 1880 herring |