Journal of the Virtual Explorer

There are over 200 publications, which deal directly or indirectly with species from Samos. Major (1888, 1892) reports on the discovery and first species lists; Solounias (1981a) and Bernor et al. (1996) published reviews of the fauna; Black et al. (1980) on the rodents; Werdelin and Solounias (1990) on the hyaenids; Schlessiger (1922) on the probosicdeans; Weber (1904, 1905) and Heissig (1975) on the rhinoceroses; Sondaar (1971) on the hipparions; Bohlin (1926), Hamilton (1978), Geraads (1977, 1979, 1986), and Solounias et al. (1988) on the giraffids; Schlosser (1904), Andree (1926), Gentry (1971), and Solounias (1981a) on the bovids. The mammal species sampled at Samos include 1 species of a bat, 5 species of rodents, among the carnivores, one remotely similar to pandas, 2 bears, 2 mustelids, 7 hyenas of various sizes, 1 felid and 3 sabertooths, 1 aardvark, 3 mastodons, 1 dinothere, 2 hyraxes, 6 species of three toed horses (hipparions or hippotheria), one chalicothere, 5 rhinoceroses, 2 suids, 1 tragulid, 1 muntjac, 1 deer, 6 species of giraffids (some similar to the living okapi, some unique, and one similar to the living giraffe) and approximately 30 species of bovids (antelopes) (Solounias 1981a, b; Bernor et al. 1996).