Karaburun (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.6° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Bachmayer, M. Mlynarski, and N. Symenonidis. 1979. Fossile schildkroten aus dem Pliozan von Megalo Emvolo (Karaburun) bei Saloniki (Griechenland). Annales Geoloquies Payes Hellen 30:267-279 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36579: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 05.02.2004, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Arambourg and Piveteau (1929) report "remains of larger mammals", as cited in de Bruijn, 1984, but the reference couldn't be tracked down.
unclassified
  -
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Trischizolagus cf. maritsae4 de Bruijn et al. 1970 rabbit
Left maxillary fragment with P4-M2, MEV 1005
Trischizolagus dumitrescuae4 Radulesco and Samson 1967 rabbit
Left and right maxillary fragments with MEV 1001; lelt mandibular fragment with P4-M2, MHV 1002, left mandibular fragment with P3-M3, MF.V 1003, left lower incisor, MEV 1004.
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti1
"Hipparion gracile" = Hipparion depereti1 Sondaar 1974 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella bailloudi n. sp.1 gazelle
Parabos macedoniae n. sp.1 antelope
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Titanochelon bacharidisi6 Vlachos et al. 2014 turtle
Testudo graeca6 Linnaeus 1758 common tortoise
 Squamata - Viperidae
Laophis crotaloides n. gen. n. sp.5
Laophis crotaloides n. gen. n. sp.5 Owen 1857 viper