Pikermi Valley-3 (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as PV3

Where: Attica, Greece (38.0° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 23.6° E)

When: Pikermi Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2008-2013; reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: S. Roussiakis, A. Athanassiou, D. Michailidis, V. Mitsopoulou, C. Solomos and G. Theodorou. 2014. Remarks on new proboscidean remains from the classical Late Miocene locality of Pikermi and their associated fauna . In D. S. Kostopoulos, E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala (eds.), 6th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena-Siatista. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 171-172 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202631: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dihoplus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium pentelicum Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium brachypus hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Palaeoreas lindermayeri Wagner 1848 antelope
Tragoportax amalthea Roth and Wagner 1854 antelope
Miotragocerus valenciennesi Gaudry 1861 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Bohlinia attica Lydekker 1886 giraffe
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe
 Carnivora - Felidae
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium proavum Eichwald 1835 deinothere
AMPG-PV3/101 (new excavations); proximal part of right McII, AMPG-PV3/146 (new excavations); proximal part of left McII
Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
? Gyps sp. Savigny 1809 vulture