Ravin de Zouaves-1 (=RZ1): Late/Upper Miocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ouzoceros gracilis
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion gracile Guerin and Mein 1971
synonym of Hipparion depereti
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella deperdita
Samotragus praecursor
de Bonis et al. 1988
Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner 1848)
original and current combination Antilope lindermayeri
Mesembriacerus melentisi
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa attica
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
de Bonis et al. 1988
Ictitherium cf. hipparionum
de Bonis et al. 1988
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, 22.8° 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: MN10
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Age estimate:9.31 to 9.23 Ma (paleomagnetic)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nea Messimvria
Stratigraphy comments: Based on Sen et al. (2000) and de Bonis et al. (1988)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified sandy,conglomeratic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: red-beds, rich in sand and gravels, which are very hard (de Bonis et al., 1988:144)
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Metadata
Database number:182746
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2016-11-23 07:52:42 Last modified:2016-11-23 07:52:42
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-23 07:52:42
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:

69452 L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain, and G. D. Koufos. 1988. Late Miocene mammal localities of the lower Axios valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their stratigraphic significance. Modern Geology 13:141-147 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
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]