Platanochori-1: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greece
collected 2013-2014
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Pontoceros ambiguus
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus hundsheimensis
(Toula 1902)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus apolloniensis
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | central Macedonia |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 23.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 23.3° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | Zone: | Villafranchian |
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Platanochori | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: This formation has limited exposure in the south-eastern part of the basin and it mainly consists of sands, sandstones, conglomerates, silty sands, silts, clays, marls and marly limestones, indicating the local development of small lakes and swamps (Figs. 1 and 2),possibly correlated to the Pleistocene tectonic fraction of the initial basin. The formation is considered transitional from the fluvioterrestrial depositional environment of the Gerakarou Fm to the merely lacustrine conditions characterizing the Mygdonian Group. Its thickness varies from10–20 m. Five fossiliferous localities are situated in this formation: Ravin of Voulgarakis (RVL), Apollonia-1 (APL),Riza-1 (RIZ), Marathoussa (MAR) and Kalamoto-1 (KAL)(Figs. 1 and 2). The study of the material indicated that they are dated to the latest Villafranchian (Koufos et al., 1995; Tsoukala and Chatzopoulou, 2005). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gravel |
| Lithology description: In the lower part of the section,the characteristic red sediments of the Gerakarou Fm are exposed, while green-white and green-grey sandstones, silty sands and silty clays, typical of the Platanochori Fm occur in the upper part (Fig. 2c, d) | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 2013-2014 |
| Collection method comments: Because it is situated in the uppermost part of a vertical cliff, systematic excavation is not possible
During the 2013 and 2014 field seasons, fossil mammals were collected from large intact blocks of sediment that collapsed from the cliff. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | PLN | ||
| Database number: | 204658 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2019-09-16 12:23:39 | Last modified: | 2019-09-16 12:23:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-09-16 12:23:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67464. | G.E. Konidaris, V. Tourloukis, D.S. Kostopoulos, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, D. Michailidis, G.D. Koufos and K. Harvatia. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14:353-362 [M. Uhen/M. Chua] |