Also known as Makrygialos3

Where: Pieria, Greece (40.4° N, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 22.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Markygialos Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected in 2015-2016

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• All the specimens studied in this article belong to the collections of the Museum of Geology, Paleontology, and Paleoanthropology, of the School of Geology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (LGPUT). Most tortoise and turtle specimens are currently included in a temporary public exhibition at the Mammoth Museum of the Nouvelle Environmental Park, in Oreokastro, Thessaloniki, under the supervision of LGPUT.

Primary reference: M. Saltsidou, A. Paschalidou, I. Sylvestrou and E. Vlachos. 2022. The latest Miocene to Pliocene small-sized fossil turtles, Testudinidae and Geoemydidae, from Makrygialos, Thermaikos Gulf, Northern Greece. The Anatomical Record 1-20 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226435: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.07.2022

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