Karnezeika (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (37.5° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 23.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red lithology not reported

• the fossils are enclosed in fine-grained red sediments, which filled a small doline in a late Triassic – early Jurassic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ), ,

• The locality of Karnezeika has been discovered in 2005 and the collected material has been stored in both Athens Museum of Palaeontology and Geology (AMPG) and the Laboratory of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Department of Geology, University of Patras

Primary reference: M. Kokotini, N. Kargopoulos, G. Iliopoulos, S. Roussiakis, P. Skandalos, D. Michailidis, G. Svorligkou, P. Kampouridis, and G. Theodorou. 2019. Karnezeika (Argolis, Peloponnese): preliminary data concerning a new Villafranchian locality of Southern Greece. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 7:1-2 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202122: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 25.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
Apodemus cf. dominans Eurasian field mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Kislangia sp. Kretzoi 1954 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917 rabbit
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Pliotragus sp. Kretzoi 1941 antelope
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera gombaszoegensis Kretzoi 1938 cat
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Ophidia -
 Squamata -
Lacertoidea indet. Camp 1923 squamates
Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816 hawk
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Pyrrhocorax sp. Tunstall 1771 chough