Ravin de Zouaves-1 (=RZ1) (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Chalkidona, Greece (40.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 22.4° E)

When: MN10 mammal zone, Nea Messimvria Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Based on Sen et al. (2000) and de Bonis et al. (1988)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, red, sandy, conglomeratic sandstone

• red-beds, rich in sand and gravels, which are very hard (de Bonis et al., 1988:144)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: C. Arambourg and J. Piveteau. 1929. Les vertébrés du Pontien de Salonique. Annales de Paleontologie 18:59-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182746: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon pentelici2 Gaudry and Lartet 1856 proboscidean
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia1 Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti Sondaar 1974 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae