Revision of the stratigraphy and depositional environmentsin the Eastern Neogene basin of
Samos. Mapping, structural analysis together with new K/Ar dates provide the following …

The limited correlation of the old collections to the fossiliferous sites and to the local
stratigraphy prevented safe dating of the Samos mammal fauna for a long time. Two main …

Abstract Rodents (Mammalia: Rodentia) constitute today the mammalian order with the
highest species diversity and the largest geographical distribution, since they live in almost …

At least three raised shorelines, micro-benches and notches, spanning a distance of more
than 10km and marked by a well-preserved marine fauna have been identified along the …

A series of successive rodent assemblages from lacustrine deposits in the intramontane
Florina-Ptolemais-Servia Basin have been collected from various sections exposed in the …

Abstract The rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) represent a herbivorous
perissodactyl family that includes the extant rhinoceroses and their phylogenetically related …

We present a new geometric morphometric method called 'eigensurface analysis' for the
quantitative analysis of three-dimensional (3D) surfaces. Eigensurface can be viewed as an …

The biogeographic relationships of North African Miocene-Pliocene rodent faunas are
assessed using two different methods, factor analysis and parsimony analysis of endemicity …

As one of the oldest known Eurasian fossil vertebrate localities, Samos late Miocene fauna
attracted the interest of specialists by its richness and overall importance. Nevertheless …

The Ca ha vertebrate locality has yielded a rich fauna which contains nine species of
rodents and one lagomorph. Eight rodent species had been described in detail in a previous …