Ravin de la Pluie: Vallesian, Greece
collected by de Bonis, Melentis, Koufos

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Decenatherium pachecoi
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Progonomys cathalai Schaub 1938
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Ouranopithecus macedoniensis de Bonis and Melentis 1977
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Palerinaceus sp. Crusafont and Villalta 1947
synonym of Amphechinus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. sebastopolitanum
Hipparion macedonicum Koufos 1984
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Bovidae
Samotragus praecursor
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mesembriacerus melentisi
de Bonis et al. 1988
Prostrepsiceros vallesiensis
de Bonis et al. 1988
Palaeoryx sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeogiraffa major Bonis and Bouvrain 2003
Bohlinia cf. attica (Lydekker 1886)
de Bonis et al. 1988
Palaeotragus coelophrys
de Bonis et al. 1988
Palaeotragus rouenii (Gaudry 1861)
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Metailurus parvulus Hensel 1862
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium thessalonikensis n. sp. Koufos 2012
Plioviverrops orbignyi (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
de Bonis et al. 1988
Protictitherium aff. intermedium Schmidt-Kittler 1976
recombined as Protoviverrops intermedium
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
de Bonis et al. 1988
subspecies leptorhyncha
Hyaenictis sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Eomellivora wimani Zdansky 1924
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon pentelici (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
de Bonis et al. 1988
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo hellenica n. sp. Garcia et al. 2020
Garcia et al. 2020
LGPUT RPI-216, a nearly complete carapace with plastron
Reptilia - Elapidae
Naja cf. romani Hoffstetter 1939
Georgalis et al. 2017
Two precloacal vertebrae (RPl 300–301)
Reptilia - Colubridae
"Colubrinae" indet. Oppel 1811
Georgalis et al. 2017
A series of incomplete vertebrae embedded in matrix (RPl 302)
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820
Georgalis et al. 2017
Two presacral vertebrae (RPl 297–298) (Fig. 2); a humerus (RPl 295) (Fig. 3a, b, d); a tibia (RPl 296) (Fig. 3e, f).
Reptilia - Anguidae
? Anguinae indet. Gray 1825
Georgalis et al. 2017
One caudal vertebra (RPl 299)
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 22.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 22.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Vallesian Mammal zone: MN10
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 8.70000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:9.149 to 9.069 Ma (paleomagnetic)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nea Messimvria
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: late Miocene (Vallesian Mammal Age, Zone MN 10, correlated with chron C4AR.1N, 9.069–9.149 Ma based on the combination of the evolutionary grade of the mammalian fauna and paleomagnetostratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sands, gravels, loose or hard conglomerates and red clay
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:de Bonis, Melentis, Koufos
Collection method comments: LGPUT, Thessaloniki
Metadata
Also known as:RPL
Database number:191070
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2018-01-08 13:40:53 Last modified:2020-04-09 06:44:17
Access level:the public Released:2018-01-08 13:40:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64411. G. Koufos. 2012. A new protictithere from the late Miocene hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie of Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 86:219-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]

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]
72042 G. Garcia, A. Pinton, X. Valentin, D. S. Kostopoulos, G. Merceron, L. Bonis, and G. D. Koufos. 2020. The earliest known crown-Testudo tortoise from the late Miocene (Vallesian, 9 Ma) of Greece. PLoS ONE 15(e0224783):1-15 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
64412 G. L. Georgalis, J.-C. Rage, L. Bonis and G. D. Koufos. 2017. Lizards and snakes from the late Miocene hominoid locality of Ravin de la Pluie (Axios Valley, Greece). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 1-13 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]