PBDB Collection

Platania (=PLD) (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Drama, Greece (41.2° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 24.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, fine-grained, brown, muddy sandstone

• The lower layer with fossils in the lower part is brownish and consists mainly of fine sand with some mud.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve

Primary reference: E. Vlachos and E. Tsoukala. 2014. Testudo cf. graeca from the new Late Miocene locality of Platania (Drama basin, N. Greece) and a reappraisal of previously published specimens. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 48:27-40 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182682: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 22.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae	Konobelodon cf. atticus¹ Konobelodon cf. atticus¹ Wagner 1857 gomphothere
Perissodactyla - Equidae	Equidae sp. Equidae sp. Gray 1821 horse
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Ceratotherium neumayri² Ceratotherium neumayri² Osborn 1900 white rhino
Artiodactyla - Giraffidae	Giraffidae sp. Giraffidae sp. Gray 1821 giraffe
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Gazella cf. ancyrensis⁴, Gazella sp.⁴, Prostrepsiceros aff. syridisi⁴, cf. Palaeoreas sp.⁴, Tragoreas aff. oryxoides⁴, Miotragocerus sp.⁴, Palaeoryx minor n. sp.⁴ Gazella cf. ancyrensis⁴ gazelle Horn-core: LGPUT PLD 349, right; Lower tooth (m3): LGPUT PLD 242, left. Gazella sp.⁴ Blaineville 1816 gazelle Prostrepsiceros aff. syridisi⁴ antelope Frontlet: LGPUT PLD 330. Horn-cores: LGPUT PLD 579 right, LGPUT PLD 594 left, LGPUT PLD 595 right, LGPUT PLD 627 left. Upper toothrow: LGPUT PLD 86 (P2-M3 left), LGPUT PLD 591 (P3-P4 left). Lower toothrow: LGPUT PLD 22 (p4-m3 left), LGPUT PLD 353 (p2-m3 right), LGPUT PLD 686 (p3-m1 right). Isolated teeth: LGPUT PLD 18 (p4 left), LGPUT PLD 165 (P4 right), LGPUT PLD 175 (P3 right), LGPUT PLD 590 (p4 right). cf. Palaeoreas sp.⁴ Gaudry 1861 antelope Part of right horn-core: LGPUT PLD 664. Tragoreas aff. oryxoides⁴ Schlosser 1904 antelope Frontlet: LGPUT PLD 151, LGPUT PLD 515. Isolated right horn-core: LGPUT PLD 662. Provisionally ascribed: Upper molars: LGPUT PLD 162 (M2 left), LGPUT PLD 584 (M1 left); Lower toothrow: LGPUT PLD 15-17 (p4-m2 left), LGPUT PLD 355 (p2-p4 left); Lower molars: LGPUT PLD 14 (m3 left), LGPUT PLD 210 (m3 left), LGPUT PLD 523 (m3 right). Miotragocerus sp.⁴ Stromer 1928 antelope Partial cranium: LGPUT PLD 413 (male), LGPUT PLD 513 (male), LGPUT PLD 740 (male), LGPUT PLD 245 (female), LGPUT PLD 152 (female), LGPUT PLD 316 (female). Isolated horn-core: LGPUT PLD 514 (left, young). Upper toothrow right: LGPUT PLD 354 (P3-M3), LGPUT PLD 363 (P3-P4), LGPUT PLD 396 (P2-M2), LGPUT PLD 491 (P2-M3), LGPUT PLD 492 (P4-M3), LGPUT PLD 526 (P4-M1), LGPUT PLD 556 (P3-M3), LGPUT PLD 578 (M1-M2), LGPUT PLD 687 (P2-M3), LGPUT PLD 745 (P2-M3). Upper toothrow left: LGPUT PLD 24 (M1-M3), LGPUT PLD 364 (P3-P4), LGPUT PLD 490 (P3-M3), LGPUT PLD 602 (M2-M3). Mandible: LGPUT PLD 485 (m2-m3 left+right, i1-i3, c left). Lower toothrow right: LGPUT PLD 54 (p2-m3), LGPUT PLD 351 (p2-m3), LGPUT PLD 352 (d4-m2), LGPUT PLD 486 (p2-m1), LGPUT PLD 536 (p2-p4), LGPUT PLD 537 (m2-m3), LGPUT PLD 629 (p2-m3), LGPUT PLD 633 (p4-m3). Lower toothrow left: LGPUT PLD 357 (p2-m2), LGPUT PLD 487 (p4-m3), LGPUT PLD 488 (p2-m3), LGPUT PLD 748 (m2-m3). Isolated upper teeth: LGPUT PLD 25 (P3 right), LGPUT PLD 40 (P4 left), LGPUT PLD 159 (P2 left), LGPUT PLD 160 (M right), LGPUT PLD 161 (M right), LGPUT PLD 164 (P3 left), LGPUT PLD 178 (P3 left), LGPUT PLD 214 (M right), LGPUT PLD 171 (M2 left), LGPUT PLD 365 (M left), LGPUT PLD 366 (M left), LGPUT PLD 527 (P3 right), LGPUT PLD 603 (M right), LGPUT PLD 688 (M2 left), LGPUT PLD 721 (P2 left). Isolated lower teeth: LGPUT PLD 12 (p3 right), LGPUT PLD 163 (m1 left), LGPUT PLD 166 (m3 left), LGPUT PLD 173 (m3 right), LGPUT PLD 174 (m2 left), LGPUT PLD 204 (m3 right), LGPUT PLD 211 (p4 right), LGPUT PLD 240 (p3 left), LGPUT PLD 496 (p2 left), LGPUT PLD 497 (p3 left), LGPUT PLD 524 (m1 right), LGPUT PLD 692 (m2 left), LGPUT PLD 762 (p3 left). Palaeoryx minor n. sp.⁴ Vasileiadis et al. 2019 antelope Holotype: LGPUT PLD 150, almost complete cranium. Paratype: LGPUT PLD 414, almost complete cranium. Refered material: Horn-cores: LGPUT PLD 663 left, LGPUT PLD 664 right. Upper toothrow: LGPUT PLD 95 left. Lower toothrow: LGPUT PLD 23 left, LGPUT PLD 685 right. Isolated teeth: LGPUT PLD 64 (P4 right), LGPUT PLD 65 (M1 left), LGPUT PLD 1(M2 left), LGPUT PLD 62 (M2 right), LGPUT PLD 72 (M3 right), LGPUT PLD 73 (M3 left), LGPUT PLD 693 (p2 left), LGPUT PLD 689 (p4 left), LGPUT PLD 690 (m1 left).
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Cervidae indet.⁴ Cervidae indet.⁴ Gray 1821 deer
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Suidae sp. Suidae sp. Gray 1821 pig
Carnivora - Hyaenidae	Adcrocuta eximia³ Adcrocuta eximia³ Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena A maxilla with the right and left P2–P4, PLD 464.
Reptilia
Testudines - Testudinidae	Testudo cf. graeca Testudo cf. graeca Linnaeus 1758 common tortoise

¹Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019; ²Tsoukala 2018; ³Tsoukala et al. 2024; ⁴Vasileiadis et al. 2019