Where: Euboea, Greece (38.9° N, 23.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.7° N, 24.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN 12 mammal zone, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Combining the above given data, an MN12 age is plausible for the fauna of Kerassiá, although MN11 cannot be rejected. A biochronological distinction of the two fossiliferous levels found in Kerassiá is not possible for the moment.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, silty, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Theodorou Team in 1992; reposited in the AMPG
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• AMPG, Museum of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Primary reference: G. Theodorou, A. Athanassiou, S. Roussiakis and G. Iliopoulos. 2003. Preliminary remarks on the Late Miocene herbivores of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece). In J.W.F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea, Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn 10:519-530 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195432: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Aves | |
Struthio karatheodoris1 Forsyth Major 1888 ostrich K1/143/2 (C3), K1/143/1 (C4), K1/177 (C5), K1/ 183/1 (C6), K1/183/2 (C7), K1/184 (C8), K1/185 (C10-11), K1/142 (C12), K1/136 (C13), K1/141 (C14) and K1/98/1 (belonging to the C6-10 series) (Figure 3(A)–(H))
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Mammalia | |
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Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Ancylotherium sp. Gaudry 1863 chalicothere | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
Helladotherium cf. duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe | |
Tragoportax cf. amalthea Roth and Wagner 1854 antelope
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle | |
? Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917 proboscidean | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark |