Also known as Gephyra
Where: Thessaloniki, Greece (40.7° N, 22.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 22.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, gray, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Sterli in 2015
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• LGPUT, collection of the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Primary reference: E. Vlachos, J. Sterli, K. Vasileiadou and G. Syrides. 2019. A new species of Mauremys (Testudines, Geoemydidae) from the Late Miocene - Pliocene of Central Macedonia (Northern Greece) with excpetionally wide vertebral scutes. Papers in Palaeontology 5(1):177-195 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196230: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mauremys aristotelica n. sp.
Mauremys aristotelica n. sp. Vlachos et al. 2019 pond turtle LGPUT GAS 34, partial carapace and plastron
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