Mytilinii-3: Turolian, Greece
collected by GD Koufos team 1985 -

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Hipparion cf. proboscideum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus cf. pikermiensis Toula 1906
recombined as Dihoplus pikermiensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
Giaourtsakis and Koufos 2009
Proximal phalanx, MYT-15; right Mt-III, MYT- 64
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Samotherium boissieri Forsyth Major 1888
Mammalia - Bovidae
Skoufotragus zemalisorum n. sp. Kostopoulos 2009
Kostopoulos 2009
Gazella pilgrimi Bohlin 1935
Kostopoulos 2009
cf. Pseudotragus sp. Schlosser 1904
Sporadotragus parvidens (Gaudry 1861)
Kostopoulos 2009
? Palaeoryx sp. Gaudry 1861
Kostopoulos 2009
? Majoreas sp. Kostopoulos 2004
Kostopoulos 2009
Protoryx cf. laticeps
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Samos
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 26.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.5° North, 26.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Turolian
Age range of interval:8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Age estimate:7.3 Ma (paleomagnetic)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mytilinii Member:Main Bone Beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:GD Koufos team Collection dates:1985 - present
Metadata
Also known as:MYT
Database number:202218
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-07-01 09:10:31 Last modified:2019-07-01 09:10:31
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-01 09:10:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69299. G. D. Koufos, G. E. Syrides, D. S. Kostopoulos, K. K. Koliadimou, I. A. Sylvestrou, G. Ch Seitanidis, and T. D. Vlachos. 1997. New excavations in the Neogene mammalian localities of Mytilinii, Samos Island, Greece. Geodiversitas 19(4):877-885 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

69301 I. X. Giaourtsakis and G. D. Koufos. 2009. The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of the Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: New Collection. 10. Chalicotheriidae. Beitrage fur Palaeontologie 31:189-205 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
71312 D. S. Kostopoulos. 2009. The Late Miocene Mammal Faunas of the Mytilinii Basin, Samos Island, Greece: New Collection 14. Bovidae. Beitrage fur Paläontologie 31:345-389 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]