Michalos: Middle Miocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Tragocerine indet.
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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cf. Caprotragoides potwaricus
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Sanitherium leobense
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium aff. crassum
Lartet 1851
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella stehlini
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Eotragus cf. sansaniensis
Lartet 1851
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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cf. Palaeomeryx eminens
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Karydomys strati n. sp.
López-Antoñanzas et al. 2019
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López-Antoñanzas et al. 2019 | 8 specimens | ||||||||
| Holotype UM Thy 0–30, a left M2. This and the paratype specimens are housed in the palaeontological collections of the University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France). Paratypes UM Thy 0–9, left M1; UM Thy 0–39, right m1; UM Thy 0–2, right m2; UM Thy 0–5, right m2; UM Thy 0–145, right m3 (broken); UM Thy 0–48 left M2; UM Thy 0–54, left M2 (broken). | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bavaricum
von Meyer 1831
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Paraskevaidis 1940 | |||||||||
| recombined as Prodeinotherium bavaricum | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Choerolophodon chioticus n. sp.
Tobien 1980
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Konidaris et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| Cranium with I2, M1M2 and erupting M3 of both sides, and associated mandible with m1m2 and erupting m3 of both sides, AMPG-937 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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| Material lost; originally in BSPG (Munich) but it was destroyed during bombing in WWII | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Aegean |
| Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 26.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 26.3° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: precise locality unknown |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Keramia, Thymiana | ||
| Database number: | 182752 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2016-11-23 09:57:31 | Last modified: | 2019-07-13 10:06:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-23 09:57:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60913. | I. Paraskevaidis. 1955. Zwei Schildkrötenreste aus dem obermiozän von Chios. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 6:133-141 [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] | |
| 73908 | R. López-Antoñanzas, P. Peláez-Campomanes, J. Prieto and F. Knoll. 2019. New species of Karydomys (Rodentia) from the Miocene of Chios Island (Greece) and phylogenetic relationships of this rare democricetodontine genus. Palaeontology 5(1):33-45 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 69476 | I. Paraskevaidis . 1940. Eine obermiocäne Fauna von Chios. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 83:363-442 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |