Kyparissia T (=KYPT) (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (37.5° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 22.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Age based on biostratigraphy

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lignite

• KYPT exhibits a sequence of rather thin layers, including a white coloured calcareous one, which may be identified as the characteristic limestone layer at the top of Lignite Seam II

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2012

• collections of the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology–Speleology (Ministry of Culture,Athens, Greece)

Primary reference: A. Athanassiou, D. Michailidis, E. Vlachos, V. Tourloukis, N. Thompson and K. Harvati. 2018. Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparíssia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes. Quaternary International 478:178-197 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194476: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 20.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus antiquus
Hippopotamus antiquus Desmarest 1822 hippo
Aves
 Anseriformes - Anatidae
Spatula clypeata
Spatula clypeata Linnaeus 1758 northern shoveler
 Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax carbo
Phalacrocorax carbo Linnaeus 1758 great cormorant
 Suliformes - Anhingidae
Anhinga sp.
Anhinga sp. Brisson 1760 darter
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emys orbicularis
Emys orbicularis Linnaeus 1758 European pond turtle