Where: Euboea, Greece (38.9° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 23.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN 12 mammal zone, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Combining the above given data, an MN12 age is plausible for the fauna of Kerassiá, although MN11 cannot be rejected. A biochronological distinction of the two fossiliferous levels found in Kerassiá is not possible for the moment.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, silty, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Theodorou Team in 1992; reposited in the AMPG
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• AMPG, Museum of Palaeontology and Geology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Primary reference: G. Theodorou, A. Athanassiou, S. Roussiakis and G. Iliopoulos. 2003. Preliminary remarks on the Late Miocene herbivores of Kerassiá (Northern Euboea, Greece). In J.W.F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea, Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A volume in honour of Hans de Bruijn 10:519-530 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195434: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.08.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Ictitherium pannonicum Kretzoi 1952 hyaena
Plioviverrops sp. Kretzoi 1938 hyaena | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn 1900 white rhino | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe |