Thymiana B (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as THB, Michalos clay pit

Where: Aegean, Greece (38.3° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 26.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN5 mammal zone, Keramaria Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

• ands-silts alternated by siltstones-sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected in 1991

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos, L. de Bonis, and S. Sen. 1995. Lophocyon paraskevaidisi, a new viverrid (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Chios island, Greece. Geobios 28(4):511-523 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202728: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Lophocyon paraskevaidisi n. sp. Koufos et al. 1995 civet
Type specimen - Mandible with I3 - M2 dex and P4-M2 sin, THB-1 (Fig. 3, P1. 1, fig. 2). Referred material - Part of the skull with C and p3.p4 dex, THB-12 ; left mandibular ramus with P4-M2, THB-14 ; lei~ mandibular ramus with P3-P4 and M2, THB-8 ; left mandibular ramus with C, P1 and M1, THB-35.
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Georgiomeryx georgalasi n. gen. n. sp.3
Georgiomeryx georgalasi n. gen. n. sp.3 Paraskevaidis 1940 giraffe
LGPUT THB-30, partial skull and mandible
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
 Artiodactyla -
Sanitherium schlagintweiti1 von Meyer 1866 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp.2 Kaup 1839 chevrotain