Where: Chalkidiki, Greece (40.4° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 22.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: MN13/14 mammal zone, Silata Member (Gonia Formation), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)
• Based on biochronology, the age of the locality is on the boundary of Miocene/Pliocene
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; silty claystone and muddy siltstone
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Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collected by G. E. Syrides; K. V. Vasileiadou in 1980-
Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve, ,
• During the 1980s, one of the authors (G.S.), working for his thesis in the area, found a level with micromammals near the village of Nea Silata (Fig. 1). At that time, he collected a poor sample and the fauna initially determined by Aguilar suggested an early Ruscinian age for the corresponding deposits (Syrides 1990).
Primary reference: K. Vasileiadou, G. D. Koufos, and G. E. Syrides. 2003. Silata, a new locality with micromammals from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary of the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. In J. W. F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea 10:549-562 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191612: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.02.2018
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Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Deinsdorfia kerkhoffi Doukas et al. 1995 red-toothed shrew
Amblycoptus cf. jessiae Doukas et al. 1995 red-toothed shrew
Asoriculus gibberodon shrew | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
cf. Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
cf. Helladotherium sp. Gaudry 1860 giraffe | |
"cf. Paramachairodus orientalis" = Paramachaerodus
"cf. Paramachairodus orientalis" = Paramachaerodus cat | |
Pliopetaurista dehneli squirrel
Spermophilinus cf. turolensis de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel | |
Myomimus maritsensis de Bruijn et al. 1970 dormouse | |
Pliospalax cf. macoveii, Apodemus dominans, Apodemus gorafensis, Micromys cf. paricioi, Occitanomys brailloni
Pliospalax cf. macoveii Simionescu 1930 blind mole
Apodemus dominans Eurasian field mouse
Apodemus gorafensis Eurasian field mouse
Micromys cf. paricioi harvest mouse
Occitanomys brailloni Michaux 1969 mouse | |
Mesocricetus primitivus de Bruijn et al. 1970 mouse | |
Prolagus michauxi pika | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Vespertilionidae indet. Gray 1821 vesper bat |