Kalithies (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Dodekanese, Greece (36.3° N, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1970-1971

Collection methods: sieve,

• Additional material from this locality has been collected by the University of Milano, but unfortunately this was burnt up during transport. Our specimens from Kalithies have been collected during the summers of 1970 and 1971.

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn. 1976. Vallesian and Turolian rodents from Biotia, Attica and Rhodes (Greece) I + II. Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B. 79(5):361-384 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205343: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Kowalskia sp." = Neocricetodon, Byzantinia sp.
"Kowalskia sp." = Neocricetodon Schaub 1934 mouse
Byzantinia sp. de Bruijn 1976 mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
? Gerbillus sp. Desmarest 1804 gerbil