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 and gray, white siltstone
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•K6 is isolated and poor in material, but it possibly correlates with K1, because of the presence of a thin grey-white marly layer above the fossiliferous layer.
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 195437: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.08.2018
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917 proboscidean |