Milia 4 (=MIL 4): Late/Upper Pliocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut borsoni
(Hays 1834)
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Tsoukala and Mol 2016 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Grevenobos antiquus
Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo brevitesta n. sp.
Vlachos and Tsoukala 2016
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Vlachos and Tsoukala 2016 | |||||||||
| LGPUT MIL 495, partial carapace in fig. 2, holotype | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Grevena |
| Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 21.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 21.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | Mammal zone: | MN 16a |
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,brown,yellow unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 6 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Apagorevmeno | ||
| Database number: | 182686 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | ||
| Created: | 2016-11-22 08:17:11 | Last modified: | 2019-04-08 15:24:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-22 08:17:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66506. | E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala, E. Cregut-Bonnoure, C. Guerin, and D. Mol. 2018. The Paradise Lost of Milia (Grevena, Greece; Late Pliocene, Early Villafranchian, MN15/MN16a): faunal composition and diversity. Quaternary MDPI 1(13):1-18 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 62998 | E. Tsoukala and D. Mol. 2016. The Proboscidea of the Early Villafranchian site of Milia (Grevena, Macedonia, Greece). Quaternary International 406:4-24 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 60889 | E. Vlachos and E. Tsoukala. 2016. The diverse chelonians from Milia (Late Pliocene, Grevena, Greece) with a new species of Testudo Linnaeus, 1758 (Testudines, Testudinidae). Papers in Palaeontology 2(1):71-86 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |