Vatera F-Site: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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cf. Dama rhenana
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= Metacervoceros cf. rhenana
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Koufos 2006 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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cf. Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Meles thorali
Viret 1951
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Nyctereutes megamastoides
(Pomel 1842)
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| original and current combination Canis megamastoides | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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cf. Gazellospira torticornis
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Antilopinae indet.
Gray 1821
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cf. Leptobos sp.
Rutimeyer 1878
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aff. Gazella borbonica
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cf. Gazella bouvrainae
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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cf. Mitilanotherium inexpectatum
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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cf. Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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| recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Paradolichopithecus arvernensis
Deperet 1929
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Reptilia
- Aves
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Aves indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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= cf. Cheirogaster aff. schafferi
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Lapparent de Broin 2002 | |||||||||
| known from some appendicular elements | ||||||||||
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= Titanochelon sp.
Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014
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Vlachos 2015 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Lesvos |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 26.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° North, 26.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Vatera | ||
| Database number: | 183341 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2016-12-12 08:37:09 | Last modified: | 2016-12-12 08:37:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-12-12 08:37:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 61190. | J. de Vos, J. van der Made, A. Athanassiou, G. Lyras, P. Y. Sondaar and M. D. Dermitzakis. 2002. Preliminary report on the late Pliocene fauna from Vatera (Lesvos, Greece). Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 39:37-70 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 61193 | G. Koufos. 2006. The Neogene mammal localities of Greece: Faunas, chronology and biostratigraphy. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 41:183-214 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/T. Cleary] | |
| 61192 | F. d. Lapparent de Broin. 2002. A giant tortoise from the Late Pliocene of Lesvos Island (Greece) and its possible relationships. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 39:99-130 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 65163 | E. Vlachos. 2015. The Fossil Chelonians of Greece. Systematics - Evolution - Stratigraphy - Palaeoecology. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 173:1-479 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |