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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Miotragocerus sp.3, Tragoreas aff. oryxoides3, Prostrepsiceros aff. syridisi3, cf. Palaeoreas sp.3, Palaeoryx minor n. sp.3, Gazella cf. ancyrensis3, Gazella sp.3
Miotragocerus sp.3 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).
Tragoreas aff. oryxoides3 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).
Prostrepsiceros aff. syridisi3 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).
Palaeoryx minor n. sp.3 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).
Gazella cf. ancyrensis3 gazelle Horn-core: LGPUT PLD 349, right; Lower tooth (m3): LGPUT PLD 242, left.
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Giraffidae sp. Gray 1821 giraffe | |
Suidae sp. Gray 1821 pig | |
Equidae sp. Gray 1821 horse | |
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Reptilia | |
Testudo cf. graeca Linnaeus 1758 common tortoise |