Pikermi Valley-1: Late Miocene, Greece
collected 2008-2013

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Testudo cf. marmorum Gaudry 1862
Vlachos et al. 2019
unclassified
Cremohipparion mediterraneum
Reptilia - Theropoda - Phasianidae
Phasianus archiaci Gaudry 1862
Mammalia - Bovidae
Tragoportax amalthea (Roth and Wagner 1854)
Protragelaphus skouzesi
Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner 1848)
Gazella capricornis
Palaeoryx pallasi (Wagner 1857)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Bohlinia attica (Lydekker 1886)
Palaeotragus rouenii (Gaudry 1861)
Mammalia - Suidae
Microstonyx major (Gervais 1848)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium brachypus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Promeles palaeatticus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Amphimachairodus giganteus Kretzoi 1929
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix primigenia (Wagner 1848)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Attica
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 24.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 23.6° East
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Miocene
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 7.27 Ma (paleomagnetic)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pikermi
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMPG
Collection dates:2008-2013
Metadata
Also known as:PV1
Database number:202630
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-07-16 14:49:01 Last modified:2019-07-16 14:49:01
Access level:the public Released:2019-07-16 14:49:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69436. S. Roussiakis, A. Athanassiou, D. Michailidis, V. Mitsopoulou, C. Solomos and G. Theodorou. 2014. Remarks on new proboscidean remains from the classical Late Miocene locality of Pikermi and their associated fauna . In D. S. Kostopoulos, E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala (eds.), 6th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena-Siatista. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 171-172 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

72005 E. Vlachos, G. L. Georgalis, S. Roussiakis, M. Bohme, and G. Theodorou. 2019. The Pikermian tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the late Miocene of the South Balkans. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(5):1-23 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]