Melambes (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as MLB

Where: Crete, Greece (35.1° N, 24.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN6 mammal zone, Astaracian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Bonneau and L. Ginsburg. 1974. Découverte de Dorcatherium puyhauberti Arambourg et Piveteau (Mammalia) dans les faciès continentaux de base de la molasse tertiaire de Crète (Grèce): Conséquences stratigraphiques et tectoniques. Compte Rendu Sommaire des Séances de la Société Géologique de France 1974(1):11-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208183: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.03.2020

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium naui Kaup 1833 chevrotain
 Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
cf. Prohyrax hendeyi Pickford 1994 hyrax