Kaloneri (=AKL): Pleistocene, Greece
collected 2006

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847
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]