Kerassia 4 (K4): Late/Upper Miocene, Greece
collected by G. Theodorou Team 1992
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Aves indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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= Struthio karatheodoris
Forsyth Major 1888
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Kampouridis et al. 2020 | |||||||||
| K4: K4.343.22/1 (C16; Figure 3(I)) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Pavo archiaci
(Gaudry 1862)
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Michailidis et al. 2010 | |||||||||
| tibiotarsus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Tetralophodon cf. longirostris
(Kaup 1832)
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= Konobelodon atticus
Wagner 1857
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Konidaris et al. 2014 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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? Dicerorhinus cf. pikermiensis
Toula 1906
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| recombined as Dihoplus pikermiensis | ||||||||||
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| sp. nov. | ||||||||||
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= Acerorhinus neleus n. sp.
Athanassiou et al. 2014
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Athanassiou et al. 2014 | |||||||||
| Holotype: K4/119.37, skull with articulated mandible (Plates 1, 2). AMPG collection, currently on display at the local Fossil Mammal Museum of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Ancylotherium sp.
Gaudry 1863
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Palaeotragus sp.
Gaudry 1861
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Helladotherium cf. duvernoyi
Gaudry and Lartet 1856
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Machairodus giganteus
Wagner 1848
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Roussiakis and Theodorou 2003 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Adcrocuta eximia
Roth and Wagner 1854
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Roussiakis and Theodorou 2003 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Euboea |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 23.3° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 23.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | Mammal zone: | MN 12 |
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Combining the above given data, an MN12 age is plausible for the fauna of Kerassiá, although MN11 cannot be rejected. A biochronological distinction of the two fossiliferous levels found in Kerassiá is not possible for the moment. |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | burrows,red or brown lithified silty,conglomeratic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: They belong to the so-called "reddish-brown fluvial deposits" (Mettos et al. 1991) in the lower layers of the upper sequence of the Límni–Istiéa Basin. The lower sequence, as well as the ophiolithic basement, are exposed NE of the village Kerassiá. The superposed reddish-brown fluvial deposits include clays, conglomerates, sands, and siltstones in succession. Their total thickness is about 250–300 m. (brown silted mud with few scattered rounded to subrounded, polymict grains in a homogeneous matrix), the presence of a red-brown layer above the bone bed, and also the presence of the same trace fossils (roots, insect burrows etc.). | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: The numerical dominance of bovids and hipparions in the fauna of Kerassiá indicates an open and rather dry environment. Forest elements as cervids and suids are rare or absent. The giraffids, as well as Tragoportax, may have lived in open woodland environments (Gentry et al. 1999). A paleoecological shift between the lower and the upper fossiliferous level is possible due to the small differences in the faunal content, but such an assumption requires more material from both levels. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Bioerosion: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMPG | ||
| Collectors: | G. Theodorou Team | Collection dates: | after 1992 |
| Collection method comments: AMPG, Museum of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:In this paper (Theodorou et al. 2003) they describe the herbivore fossils. The carnivores are described in another paper. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 195435 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos, P. Kampouridis |
| Modifier: | P. Kampouridis | ||
| Created: | 2018-08-08 12:45:18 | Last modified: | 2018-08-13 09:27:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-08 12:45:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66526. | G. Theodorou, A. Athanassiou, S. Roussiakis and G. Iliopoulos. 2003. Preliminary remarks on the Late Miocene herbivores of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece). In J.W.F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea, Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn 10:519-530 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 66528 | A. Athanassiou, S. J. Roussiakis, I. X. Giaourtsakis, G. E. Theodorou, and G. Iliopoulos. 2014. A new hornless rhinoceros of the genus Acerorhinus (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) from the Upper Miocene of Kerassiá (Euboea, Greece), with a revision of related forms. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 303(1-3):23-59 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 72832 | P. Kampouridis, D. Michailidis, N. Kargopoulos, S. Roussiakis, and G. Theodorou. 2020. First description of an ostrich from the late Miocene of Kerassia (Euboea, Greece): remarks on its cervical anatomy. Historical Biology 1-9 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 69453 | G. E. Konidaris, S. J. Roussiakis, G. E. Theodorou and G. D. Koufos. 2014. The Eurasian occurrence of the shovel-tusker Konobelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) as illuminated by its presence in the late Miocene of Pikermi (Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:1437-1453 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 66564 | D. Michailidis, S. Roussiakis, and G. Theodorou. 2010. Palaeoavian remains from the Late Miocene localities of Pikermi, Chomateri and Kerassiá; palaeoecological implications. In A. Chatzipetros, V. Melfos, P. Marchev, I. Lakova (eds.), XIX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association 39(1-2):250-251 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis] | |
| 66538 | S. J. Roussiakis and G. E. Theodorou. 2003. Carnivora from the Late Miocene of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece). In J. W. F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea. Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A Volume in Honour of Hans de Bruijn 10:469-497 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis/P. Kampouridis] |