Dafnero 3 (Pliocene of Greece)

Also known as DFN3

Where: Kozani, Greece (40.2° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

• DFN and DFN3 are part of the same fossiliferous layer of ochre silty sands exposed on the opposite slopes of an erosional crest. Stratigraphically, the fossil-yielding horizon is found ~0.5 m below a 1e2 m thick, dense conglomerate in a 20 m high section. The fossiliferous deposits belong to the basal part of a 60 m thick terrestrial lithostratigraphic unit of fluviatile origin that overlies unconformably molassic palustrial sediments ascribed to the Tsotylion Formation of the Mesohellenic Trench (Fountoulis et al., 2001 and references therein)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: LGPUT, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Primary reference: D. S. Kostopoulos, F. Guy, Z. Kynigopoulou, G. D. Koufos, X. Valentin and G. Merceron. 2018. A 2Ma old baboon-like monkey from Northern Greece and new evidence to support the Paradolichopithecus e Procynocephalus synonymy (Primates: Cercopithecidae). Journal of Human Evolution 1-15 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193513: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.05.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis
Paradolichopithecus aff. arvernensis Deperet 1929 monkey
LGPUT DFN3-150, moderately deformed subadult female cranium preserving all postcanine teeth