Also known as TSR

Where: central Macedonia , Greece (40.5° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Gerakarou Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• The Gerakarou Fm consists of red-brown sands, gravels, sandy silts, and clays, deposited in a fluvial/fluvio-torrential environment

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2014-present

Collection methods: quarrying,

• TSR was discovered in 2014 during a targeted survey by a joint team from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Paleoanthropology working group at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

•TSR has yielded more than 2000 mammalian bones and teeth to date, which are stored at the Museum of Geology, Palaeontology, and Palaeoanthropology of the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (LGPUT).

Primary reference: G.E. Konidaris, V. Tourloukis, D.S. Kostopoulos, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, D. Michailidis, G.D. Koufos and K. Harvatia. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14:353-362 [M. Uhen/M. Chua]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197943: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Marcus Chua on 02.12.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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