near village Sani: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mastodon pentelici
synonym of Mammut
LGPUT 1977/1
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Kassandra
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 23.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 23.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:2 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens deposited in the Laboratory of Geology and Paleontology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (LGPUT)
Metadata
Database number:202528
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-07-13 09:03:05 Last modified:2019-07-13 09:11:01
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-13 09:03:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69395. G. D. Koufos. 1977. New finds of mastodonts from Macedonia (Greece). Scientific Annals, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Thessaloniki 17:97-115 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]