Agia Paraskevi: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece
collected by G. Miteloudis 1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium giganteum
Kaup 1829
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| Three upper cheek teeth of a tooth row : P° PAR 1 dex, P~2 dex, M 1 PAR 3 dex. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Kassandra |
| Coordinates: | 40.0° North, 23.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.6° North, 23.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: unconsolidated sands with crossbedding and lenses of fine-grained marls | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | G. Miteloudis | Collection dates: | 1990 |
| Collection method comments: Specimens collected during road construction | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 202726 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2019-07-19 13:03:43 | Last modified: | 2019-07-19 13:03:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-07-19 13:03:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69474. | E. Tsoukala and J. K. Melentis. 1994. Deinotherium giganteum Kaup (Proboscidea) from Kassandra peninsula (Chalkidiki, Macedonia, Greece). Geobios 27(5):633-640 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |