Gialtra (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as Yialtra

Where: Euboea, Greece (38.9° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 22.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; marl and lignite

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Palaiologos

Primary reference: P. Psarianos and E. Thenius. 1954. Über Elephas (Archidiskodon) meridionalis (Elephant., Mammal.) von Euboea (Griechenland). Praktika Akadimias Athinon (Proceedings of the Academy of Athens) 28:413-424 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204804: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 24.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis
"Elephas meridionalis" = Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
right mandible
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Mimomys sp. Forsyth-Major 1902 vole