Tenevo: Early/Lower Pliocene, Bulgaria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Dolichopithecus sp. Depéret 1889
cited as Spassov in prep.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus megarhinus
cited as Spassov in prep.
Mammalia - Camelidae
Paracamelus sp. Schlosser 1903
cited as Spassov in prep.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Agriotherium cf. sivalensis Cautley and Falconer 1836
cited as Spassov in prep.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
cited as Spassov in prep.
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
ex gr. atlas
    = Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
Stojanov 2009
    = Cheirogaster cf. bacharidisi Vlachos et al. 2014
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]