Michalos (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as Keramia, Thymiana

Where: Aegean, Greece (38.3° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 26.3° E)

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• precise locality unknown

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: I. Paraskevaidis. 1955. Zwei Schildkrötenreste aus dem obermiozän von Chios. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 6:133-141 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182752: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Karydomys strati n. sp.2 López-Antoñanzas et al. 2019 mouse
Holotype UM Thy 0–30, a left M2. This and the paratype specimens are housed in the palaeontological collections of the University of Montpellier (Montpellier, France). Paratypes UM Thy 0–9, left M1; UM Thy 0–39, right m1; UM Thy 0–2, right m2; UM Thy 0–5, right m2; UM Thy 0–145, right m3 (broken); UM Thy 0–48 left M2; UM Thy 0–54, left M2 (broken).
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Eotragus cf. sansaniensis3 Lartet 1851 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium aff. crassum3 Lartet 1851 chevrotain
 Artiodactyla -
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum3
"Deinotherium bavaricum" = Prodeinotherium bavaricum3 von Meyer 1831 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon chioticus n. sp.1 Tobien 1980 proboscidean
Cranium with I2, M1M2 and erupting M3 of both sides, and associated mandible with m1m2 and erupting m3 of both sides, AMPG-937
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Material lost; originally in BSPG (Munich) but it was destroyed during bombing in WWII