Apolakkia I: Early/Lower Pliocene, Greece
collected 1992-1993
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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Mueller-Towe et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| probably from a small turtle | ||||||||||
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= cf. Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Vlachos 2015 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudoolithidae
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Testudoolithus rigidus
Hirsch 1996
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Mueller-Towe et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| eggs of a giant tortoise | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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| partial skull with tusks | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Apodemus aff. dominans
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van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Dolomys sp.
Nehring 1898
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van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986 | |||||||||
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Dolomys occitanus
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van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor fiber
Linnaeus 1758
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van der Meulen and van Kolfschoten 1986 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Dodecannese |
| Coordinates: | 36.0° North, 27.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° North, 27.6° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 5.3 to 3.4 Ma (paleomagnetic) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray,green lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMPG | Collection dates: | 1992-1993 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184242 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2017-02-10 07:06:29 | Last modified: | 2019-07-12 15:47:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-02-10 07:06:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69391. | G. Theodorou, N. Spjeldnaes, N. M. Hanken, S. E. Lauritzen, E. Velitzelos, A. Athanassiou, and S. Roussiakis. 2000. Description and taphonomic investigations of Neogene Proboscidea from Rhodos, Greece. Annales Geologiques des Pays Helléniques 38:133-156 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 61578 | I. J. Mueller-Towe, T. A. Kjeldahl-Vallon, J. Milan, L. H. Vallon, G. Theodorou, J. Lindgren, S. J. Roussiakis and R. G. Bromley. 2011. First chelonian eggs and carapace fragments from the Pliocene of Rhodes, Greece. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 262(3):309-322 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 70368 | A. van der Meulen and T. van Kolfschoten. 1986. Review of the late Turolian to early Biharian mammal faunas from Greece and Turkey. Memorie Societá Geologica Italiana 31:201-211 [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] |