Sesklon: Villanyian, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Pliohyaena perrieri
Euthyceros thessalicus
Athanassiou 2018
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
    = Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828
Athanassiou 2016
However, I currently consider the tusk's attribution to Anancus, as originally supposed by Symeonidis and Tataris (1983), as the most plausible, not only because of its association to the skull and mandible, but also for the reason that weakly curved and twisted tusks do occur in Anancus skulls
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890
cf. Homotherium crenatidens Fabrini 1890
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus cf. etruscus Cuvier 1823
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Nyctereutes megamastoides (Pomel 1842)
original and current combination Canis megamastoides
Vulpes cf. alopecoides Forsyth Major 1877
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus stenonis Cocchi 1867
recombined as Allohippus stenonis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus cf. strozzii Forsyth Major 1881
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
? Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
    = Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868
Athanassiou 2018
cf. Croizetoceros ramosus (Croizet and Jobert 1828)
    = Croizetoceros ramosus Croizet and Jobert 1828
Athanassiou 2018
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus (Mitilanotherium) inexspectatus (Samson and Radulesco 1966)
Athanassiou 2014
Mitilanotherium martinii
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazellospira torticornis
Gallogoral meneghinii
Athanassiou 2018
sickenbergii
? Caprinae indet. Gray 1821
? Ovibovini indet.
Antilopinae indet. Gray 1821
? Caprini indet. Gray 1821
Gazella borbonica
Gazella bouvrainae
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
    = Gazella aegaea
Athanassiou 2018
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
cf. Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
Athanassiou 2018
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Thessaly
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 22.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 22.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Villanyian
Age range of interval:3.20000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MN17, Pliocene, Middle/Late Villafranchian, Middle Villanyian
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SES
Database number:34614
Authorizer:A. Turner, E. Vlachos Enterer:H. O'Regan, E. Vlachos
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-12 07:47:16 Last modified:2003-09-25 07:35:20
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-12 07:47:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9135.PACED G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]

Secondary references:

73226 A. Athanassiou. 2014. New giraffid (Artiodactyla) material from the Lower Pleistocene locality of Sésklo (SE Thessaly, Greece): evidence for an extension of the genus Palaeotragus into the Pleistocene. Zitteliana B 32:71-89 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69396 A. Athanassiou. 2016. Craniomandibular remains of Anancus arvernensis (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from Greece: The samples from Kallíphytos (E. Macedonia) and Sésklo (Thessaly). Quaternary International 406:25-34 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
70370 A. Athanassiou. 2018. A Villafranchian Hipparion-Bearing Mammal Fauna from Sésklo (E. Thessaly, Greece): Implications for the Question of Hipparion–Equus Sympatry in Europe. Quaternary MDPI 1(12):1-24 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]