Also known as RPL
Where: Greece (40.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 22.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: MN10 mammal zone, Nea Messimvria Formation, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)
• late Miocene (Vallesian Mammal Age, Zone MN 10, correlated with chron C4AR.1N, 9.069–9.149 Ma based on the combination of the evolutionary grade of the mammalian fauna and paleomagnetostratigraphy
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by de Bonis, Melentis, Koufos
Collection methods: quarrying, ,
• LGPUT, Thessaloniki
Primary reference: G. Koufos. 2012. A new protictithere from the late Miocene hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie of Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 86:219-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191070: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Spermophilinus sp. de Bruijn and Mein 1968 squirrel | |
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"Palerinaceus sp." = Amphechinus
"Palerinaceus sp." = Amphechinus Aymard 1850 hedgehog | |
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Hipparion cf. sebastopolitanum hipparionine horse | |
Palaeoryx sp. Gaudry 1861 antelope | |
Palaeogiraffa major Bonis and Bouvrain 2003 giraffe | |
Metailurus parvulus Hensel 1862 cat | |
Protictitherium thessalonikensis n. sp., Plioviverrops orbignyi1, "Protictitherium aff. intermedium" = Protoviverrops intermedium, Adcrocuta eximia1, Hyaenictis sp.
Protictitherium thessalonikensis n. sp. Koufos 2012 hyaena
"Protictitherium aff. intermedium" = Protoviverrops intermedium Schmidt-Kittler 1976 hyaena
Hyaenictis sp. Gaudry 1861 hyaena | |
Eomellivora wimani Zdansky 1924 ratel | |
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere | |
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Reptilia | |
Testudo hellenica n. sp.2
Testudo hellenica n. sp.2 Garcia et al. 2020 turtle LGPUT RPI-216, a nearly complete carapace with plastron
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"Colubrinae" indet.3 Oppel 1811 colubrid snake A series of incomplete vertebrae embedded in matrix (RPl 302)
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Varanus sp.3 Merrem 1820 monitor lizard Two presacral vertebrae (RPl 297–298) (Fig. 2); a humerus (RPl 295) (Fig. 3a, b, d); a tibia (RPl 296) (Fig. 3e, f).
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