Gela: Turolian, Greece
collected 2002-2010

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829
A:I, left incisor; A:II, body of cervical vertebra; A:III, atlas; A:IV and V, ribs; A:VI, radius. B:I, left p3; B:II, left P4; B:III, right m3; B:IV, left m3; B:V, right M1; B:VI, right M2; B:VII, left M3
    = Deinotherium proavum Eichwald 1835
Iliopoulos et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Crete County:Lasithi
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 26.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 26.1° 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 Mammal zone: MN11-13
Age range of interval:8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Skopi
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,red sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: coarse grained, reddish sands
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:9 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2002-2010
Collection method comments: Material deposited at NHMC, Natural History Museum of Crete
Metadata
Also known as:Aghia Photia, Siteia
Database number:202723
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-07-19 12:15:19 Last modified:2019-07-19 12:20:28
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-19 12:15:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

69470. N. Poulakakis, P. Lymberakis, and C. Fassoulas. 2005. Deinotherium giganteum (Proboscidea, Deinotheriidae) from the late Miocene of Crete. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):732-736 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

69471 G. Iliopoulos, C. Fassoulas, and M. Tzortzi. 2014. An almost complete skeleton of a large Deinotherium (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Aghia Photia, Siteia (Crete Island, Greece). In D. S. Kostopoulos, E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala (eds.), 6th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena-Siatista. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 102:72-73 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]