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, burrowed, silty, conglomeratic sandstone
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•(brown silted mud with few scattered rounded to subrounded, polymict grains in a homogeneous matrix), the presence of a red-brown layer above the bone bed, and also the presence of the same trace fossils (roots, insect burrows etc.).
Size class: macrofossils
• The specimen shows no sign of abrasion or breakage, preserving fragile parts, as the nasals, the tusks and the paroccipital processes. This implies either that the specimen has not suffered any substantial transport from the death site, or that it was transported soon after death, when the skin, muscles, and ligaments remained mostly still in place. The absence of any other skeletal parts of the same individual supports the latter option, as does the general taphonomical setting of the site, which suggests a low energy water current as the accumulating agent of the bones (Iliopoulos 2003a).
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 195435: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.08.2018, edited by Panagiotis Kampouridis
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
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Mammalia | |
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Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Ancylotherium sp. Gaudry 1863 chalicothere | |
"? Dicerorhinus cf. pikermiensis" = Dihoplus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
Helladotherium cf. duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe | |
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle | |
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