Hippopotamus creutzburgi creutzburgi Boekschoten & Sondaar, 1966

Cretan dwarf hippo(potamus)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hippopotamus creutzburgi Boekschoten & Sondaar, 1966

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Crete, Greece

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Boekschoten, G. J. and Sondaar, P. Y. (1966). The Pleistocene of the Katharo basin (Crete) and its Hippopotamus. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 36: 17-44.

Other references:

Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.

Kafousias, P. and Liakopoulou, D. (2017). Os petrosum external morphology of the endemic [i]Hippopotamus creutburgi[/i] from the island of Crete, Greece, pp 112. In: Book of Abstracts of the 15th Congress of the RCMNS (Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy), entitled “Exploring a “physical laboratory”: the Mediterranean Basin”, Crown Plaza Hotel, Athens, Greece, September 3-6, 2017.

Kuss, S. E. (1975). Hippopotamus creutzburgi parvus n. ssp., ein pleistozänes Zwergflusspferd von der Insel Kreta. Ber. Naturf. Ges. Freiburg i. Br. 65:5-23.

Marra, Antonella Cinzia. (2005). Pleistocene Hippopotamuses of Mediterranean islands: looking for ancestors. InALcoVER, J.A. & BOVER, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insular VertebrateEvolution: thePalaeontological Approach': Monografies de la Societatd'Història Natural de les Balears 12: 193-204.

Petronio, C. (1995). Note on the taxonomy of Pleistocene hippopotamuses. Ibex J.M.E. 3: 53-55.

Reese DS, Belluomini G, and Ikeya, M (1996) Absolute dates for the Pleistocene fauna of Crete. In Reese DS, ed., Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers, pp. 47–51. Prehistory Press, Madison.

Spaan, A. (1996). Hippopotamus creutzburgi: the case of the Cretan Hippopotamus. In: Reese, D.S. (Ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers. Monograph in World Archaeology, Vol. 28. Prehistory Press, Madison, WI, pp. 99-111.

Spaan, A., Sondaar, P. Y. and Hartman, W. (1994).The structure of the evolutionary process. Geobios 27: 385-390.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.

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