Kaloneri (=AKL): Pleistocene, Greece
collected 2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas antiquus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greece | State/province: | Askion |
Coordinates: | 40.3° North, 21.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.2° North, 21.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Altitude: | 581 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow unlithified sandy sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | unlithified claystone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The fossil remains were found at the south-eastern shore of the Mirichos, one of the tributaries of the Aliakmon, in fluvial deposits of predominating yellow sand with some inclusions of clay and small gravels. The sand deposits are often calcareous and locally cemented and belong to a Plio-Pleistocene fluvialelacustrine sequence | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | -single event |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Abundance in sediment: | rare |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2006 |
Metadata
Database number: | 182677 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2016-11-22 05:17:51 | Last modified: | 2016-11-22 05:17:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-22 05:17:51 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
60881. | E. Tsoukala, D. Mol, S. Pappa, E. Vlachos, W. Logchem, M. Vaxevanopoulos, and J. Reumer. 2011. Elephas antiquus in Greece: New finds and a reappraisal of older material (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Elephantidae). Quaternary International 245:339-349 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |