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