Sesklon: Villanyian, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Pliohyaena perrieri
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Euthyceros thessalicus
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Athanassiou 2018 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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= Anancus arvernensis
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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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
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Homotherium crenatidens
Fabrini 1890
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cf. Homotherium crenatidens
Fabrini 1890
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus cf. etruscus
Cuvier 1823
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Nyctereutes megamastoides
(Pomel 1842)
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original and current combination Canis megamastoides | ||||||||||
Vulpes cf. alopecoides
Forsyth Major 1877
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Stephanorhinus sp.
Kretzoi 1942
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus cf. strozzii
Forsyth Major 1881
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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? Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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= Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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Athanassiou 2018 | |||||||||
cf. Croizetoceros ramosus
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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= Croizetoceros ramosus
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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Athanassiou 2018 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Palaeotragus (Mitilanotherium) inexspectatus
(Samson and Radulesco 1966)
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Athanassiou 2014 | |||||||||
Mitilanotherium martinii
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazellospira torticornis
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Gallogoral meneghinii
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Athanassiou 2018 | |||||||||
sickenbergii | ||||||||||
? Caprinae indet.
Gray 1821
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? Ovibovini indet.
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Antilopinae indet.
Gray 1821
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? Caprini indet.
Gray 1821
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Gazella borbonica
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Gazella bouvrainae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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= Gazella aegaea
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Athanassiou 2018 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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cf. Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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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] |