Tsotylion (Pliocene) (Pliocene of Greece)

Where: Kozani, Greece (40.3° N, 21.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: LGPUT, Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Primary reference: D.S. Kostopoulos and I. Koulidou. 2015. An early mammoth maxilla from north-western Greece. Quaternary International 379:155-163 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204400: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
primitive Eurasian morph