Megalopolis: Pleistocene, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
Panthera leo fossilis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus etruscus (Falconer 1868)
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Hippopotamus amphibius antiquus
Mammalia - Cervidae
Praemegaceros verticornis
informal Cervus peloponnesiacus
Cervus (s.l.) peloponnesiacus
informal Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Cervus (s.l.) sp.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti 1825)
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Peloponnisos
Coordinates: 37.4° North, 22.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 22.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: MNQ 20-21. Latest Villafranchian to Galerian, (very roughly 1.2Ma-0.8Ma).
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:MGL
Database number:34809
Authorizer:A. Turner Enterer:H. O'Regan
Modifier:H. O'Regan Research group:PACED
Created:2003-09-30 07:56:29 Last modified:2003-09-30 10:56:29
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-30 07:56:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9135.PACED G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]