Vassiloudi (Pliocene of Greece)

Also known as VSL Vassiloudi-1

Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.7° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Villafranchian, similar to Gerakarou 1, MNQ 18, Late Villanyian, late Pliocene

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34651: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

• only skulls and teeth included in numbers of specimens given in Koufos and Kostopoulos (1997).
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus strozzii Forsyth Major 1881 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Procamptoceras sp. Schaub 1923 antelope