Xirochori (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Greece (40.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 22.4° E)

When: MN 10 mammal zone, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• Late Vallesian, MN 10; GPTS = ∼9.6 Ma.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2012. New material of Carnivora (Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Axios Valley, Macedonia, Greece. Comptes Rendus Palevol 11:49-64 [M. Uhen/J. Villari/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195490: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.08.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Dinocrocuta sp. Schmidt-Kittler 1976 carnivoran
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon pentelici Gaudry and Lartet 1856 proboscidean