Maronia (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Crete Island, Greece (35.2° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN11-13 mammal zone, Faneromeni Formation, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

• a pebble bed intercalated in white marls, which include several Ostrea banks.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by I. Dermitzakis

• Specimen in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Seteía

Primary reference: A. Athanassiou. 2004. On a Deinotherium (Proboscidea) finding in the Neogene of Crete. Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology - Letter 5:1-7 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere
right dentary fragment with the first molar (m1), MAP-1