Fossil collection from Samos Island in the NHMW (Miocene of Greece)
Where: Aegean, Greece (37.7° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 26.6° E)
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Szalai. 1931. Testudo schafferi nov. sp. eine Riesenschildkröte aus dem Pliozän von Samos. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 45:153-163 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182751: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.11.2016
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"Testudo schafferi n. sp." = Titanochelon schafferi
"Testudo schafferi n. sp." = Titanochelon schafferi Szalai 1931 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
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Konobelodon atticus2 Wagner 1857 gomphothere Left mandibular fragment with lower tusk, NHMW-1911-V-49.
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