Richea: Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene, Greece
collected 1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus
(Falconer 1868)
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| APMG REI, isolated teeth and limb elements | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Lakonia |
| Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 23.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.9° North, 23.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | calcareous breccia |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: calcified breccia inside the limestone fissure of Tripolis Geotectonic Zone | |
| Environment: | fissure fill |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMPG | Collection dates: | 1981 |
| Collection method comments: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Geology and Geoenvironment. Collected by a geologist student from the area | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 195310 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2018-08-04 13:51:07 | Last modified: | 2018-08-04 13:56:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-04 13:51:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66510. | P. Kampouridis, N. Kargopoulos, G. Svorligkou, I. Giaourtsakis, S. Roussiakis and G. Theodorou. 2018. Rhinocerotidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) remains from the new Pleistocene locality of Richea (Laconia, Greece). Abstract Book of the 5th International Paleontological Congress, Paris, France 1049-1049 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |