Also known as KM
Where: Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (41.5° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 23.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• "The fossiliferous area around Kalimantsi village in the Middle Struma basin covers a large region (c. 6 km2) of late Miocene deposits including more than 10 known fossil mammal localities (labelled KM sites). Recent biostratigraphic revision demonstrates that all KM sites are of Turolian age.KM-1, belonging to the newly established Gradishte lithocomplex, is likely to yield a fauna of early Turolian age, while other KM faunas (referred to the Strumyani Genetic Lithocomplex) are considered to belong to the middle Turolian (Tzankov et al. 2005; Spassov et al. 2006)"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: Z. Boev and N. Spassov. 2009. First record of ostriches (Aves, Struthioniformes, Struthionidae) from the late Miocene of Bulgaria with taxonomic and zoogeographic discussion. Geodiversitas 31(3):493-507 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197445: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Panagiotis Kampouridis on 11.11.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839 monkey | |
Hippotherium brachypus hipparionine horse | |
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
Palaeoreas lindermayeri Wagner 1848 antelope
Tragoportax cf. amalthea Roth and Wagner 1854 antelope | |
Bohlinia attica Lydekker 1886 giraffe
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe | |
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena | |
Reptilia | |
Testudo (Protestudo) sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle K-495-499, partial shell, shell fragments and some bones
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"Clemmydopsis cf. sopronensis" = Clemmydopsis mehelyi
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Aves | |
Struthio cf. karatheodoris Forsyth Major 1888 ostrich NMNHS 16371, tarsometarsus dextra distalis adult individual
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