Ravin X: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Mesopithecus pentelici
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros pachygnathus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion gracile Guerin and Mein 1971
synonym of Hipparion depereti
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus erymanthius
Mammalia - Bovidae
Helicotragus rotundicornis
Gazella gaudryi Schlosser 1904
Oioceros rothi
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816
Tragocerus amaltheus
Palaeoryx pallasi (Wagner 1857)
original and current combination Antilope pallasi
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus afanistus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaena eximia
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Mastodon pentelici
    = Choerolophodon pentelici Gaudry and Lartet 1856
Konidaris et al. 2016
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Chalkidona
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 22.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 22.4° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene Mammal zone: MN12
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Precise locality unknown
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow poorly lithified mudstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:182745
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2016-11-23 07:33:52 Last modified:2016-11-23 08:07:10
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-23 07:33:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60908. C. Arambourg and J. Piveteau. 1929. Les vertébrés du Pontien de Salonique. Annales de Paleontologie 18:59-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

69398 G. E. Konidaris, G. D. Koufos, D. S. Kostopoulos and G. Merceron. 2016. Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Choerolophodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) in the Miocene of SE Europe-SW Asia: implications for phylogeny and biogeography. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 14:1-27 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]