Vassiloudi (Pliocene of Greece)
Also known as VSL Vassiloudi-1
Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.7° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• Late Villafranchian, similar to Gerakarou 1, MNQ 18, Late Villanyian, late Pliocene
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34651: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 15.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• only skulls and teeth included in numbers of specimens given in Koufos and Kostopoulos (1997).
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Mammalia | |
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear | |
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse | |
Sus strozzii Forsyth Major 1881 pig | |