Also known as KLT
Where: Mygdonia, Greece (40.5° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.3° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Platanochori Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; brown, red, yellow sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: The material is deposited in the Museum of Kalamoto
Primary reference: E. Tsoukala and K. Chatzopoulou. 2005. A New Early Pleistocene (Latest Villafranchian) Site with Mammals in Kalamotó (Mygdonia Basin, Macedonia, Greece) – Preliminary Report. Mitt. Komm. Quartärforsch. Österr. Akad. Wiss 14:213-233 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 200084: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.03.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle LGPUT KAL 180 is a partial left xiphiplastron, measuring approximately 26 mm in length and 38 mm in width
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Mammalia | |
Mammuthus (Archidiskodon) meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse | |
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus
"Dicerorhinus etruscus" = Stephanorhinus etruscus Falconer 1868 rhinoceros | |
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Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Dama sp. Frisch 1775 fallow deer
Praemegaceros pliotarandoides De Alessandri 1903 deer | |
cf. Leptobos etruscus antelope
Bison (Eobison) sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison |