Tenevo: Early/Lower Pliocene, Bulgaria
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Dolichopithecus sp.
Depéret 1889
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cited as Spassov in prep. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus megarhinus
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cited as Spassov in prep. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Paracamelus sp.
Schlosser 1903
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cited as Spassov in prep. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Agriotherium cf. sivalensis
Cautley and Falconer 1836
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cited as Spassov in prep. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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cited as Spassov in prep. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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ex gr. atlas | ||||||||||
= Geochelone sp.
Fitzinger 1835
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Stojanov 2009 | |||||||||
= Cheirogaster cf. bacharidisi
Vlachos et al. 2014
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Vlachos et al. 2014 | |||||||||
recombined as Titanochelon bacharidisi | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Bulgaria | State/province: | Yambol |
Coordinates: | 42.4° North, 26.5° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.2° North, 26.4° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Lithology description: sand quarry | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 184410 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2017-02-23 15:16:06 | Last modified: | 2017-02-23 15:16:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-02-23 15:16:06 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
61770. | Z. Boev. 2008. First finds of giant land tortoises discovered in Bulgaria. News of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 56(4):2-4 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
61771 | A. Stojanov. 2009. Erster Nachweis einer Riesenlandschildkröte (Geochelone s.l. Gray, 1872) aus Bulgarien. Revue de Paléobiologie 28(2):457-470 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
60875 | E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala, and J. Corsini. 2014. Cheirogaster bacharidisi, sp. nov., a new species of a giant tortoise from the Pliocene of Thessaloniki (Macedonia, Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):560-575 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |