Where: Crete, Greece (35.0° N, 25.3° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve,

• A Hipparion premolar found by one of the authors (W. J. Z.) in 1967 near the village of Kasteliana, central Crete (see fig. 1), initiated a systematic search for mammalian remains in the area. Efforts were concentrated on sections with alternating continental, brackish and open marine sediments, in an attempt to establish a correlation between continental and marine biostratigraphic zones

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, P. Sondaar, and W. J. Zachariasse. 1971. Mammalia and Foraminifera from the Neogene of Kastellios hill (Crete): correlations of continental and marine biozones. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 73(5):535-584 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205363: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 13.10.2019

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