Xerias (=XEK): Pleistocene, Greece
collected by Adamidis 2006
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Megaloceros sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas antiquus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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| recombined as Palaeoloxodon antiquus | |||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Testudo cf. marginata
Schoepff 1792
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Kavala |
| Coordinates: | 41.0° North, 24.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.0° North, 24.6° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Fissure filling |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red lithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: They were found at a distance of about 600 m from the village of Xerias, preserved in red clay that is hardly consolidated in some parts. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Adamidis | Collection dates: | 2006 |
| Collection method comments: The fossils were found during the construction of the Egnatia Highway. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 182679 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2016-11-22 05:33:58 | Last modified: | 2016-11-22 05:33:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-22 05:33:58 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 65163 | E. Vlachos. 2015. The Fossil Chelonians of Greece. Systematics - Evolution - Stratigraphy - Palaeoecology. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 173:1-479 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |