Pentalophos 1 (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as PNT

Where: Central Macedonia, Greece (40.7° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 22.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 mammal zone, Nea Messimvria Formation, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and sandstone

• Series of red-beds which is the bottom of the ravine consist of hard conglomerates overlaid by consolidated sands, gravels, and reddish clays

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1983

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Material stored in the collections of the Laboratory of Geology and Paleontology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Primary reference: L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain, D. Geraads, G. D. Koufos, and S. Sen. 1994. The first aardvarks from the Miocene of Macedonia (Greece). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 194(2/3):343-360 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202119: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 24.06.2019

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon anatolicus1 Ozansoy 1965 proboscidean
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus pottieri Ozansoy 1965 aardvark
right maxillary fragment with C–M3 (LGPUT-PNT-127) and right mandibular fragment with c–m1 (LGPUT-PNT-129)
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium hellenicum n. sp.3 Koufos 2012 chalicothere
Holotype. Skull PNT-160.
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium neumayeri2, "Aceratherium kiliasi" = Chilotherium kiliasi2
"Aceratherium kiliasi" = Chilotherium kiliasi2 Geraads and Koufos 1990 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.2 de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
"? Decennatherium macedoniae" = Palaeogiraffa macedoniae2
"? Decennatherium macedoniae" = Palaeogiraffa macedoniae2 Geraads 1989 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella sp.2 Blaineville 1816 gazelle
Boselaphini indet.2 Knottnerus-Meyer 1997 antelope
Protoryx sp.2 Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Dinocrocuta gigantea2 Schlosser 1903 carnivoran
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium cf. crassum2 Deperet 1892 hyaena