Sesklon (Lower Level) (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Thessaly, Greece (39.4° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 16 (3.2 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205043: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus arvernensis Deperet 1885 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus arvernensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 gomphothere
Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio cf. chersonensis Brant 1873 ostrich