Gračanica coal mine (lower section [unit 1]) (Miocene to of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Also known as Bugojno palaeolake

Where: Bosnia and Herzegovina (44.0° N, 17.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 17.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 5 to MN 5 (16.0 - 12.8 Ma)

• from lower 20 meters of local section (unit 1)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lignite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Bastl, D. Nagel, M. Morlo and U. B. Göhlich. 2020. The Carnivora (Mammalia) from the middle Miocene locality of Gračanica (Bugojno Basin, Gornji Vakuf, Bosnia and Herzegovina). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:307-319 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198251: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 11.12.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Eotragus ? clavatus1 Gervais 1850 antelope
Tethytragus sp.1 Azanza 1994 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffokeryx sp.1 Pilgrim 1910 giraffe
 Carnivora - Percrocutidae
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon giganteus Schinz 1825 bear-dog
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Alligatoroidea indet.2 Gray 1844 crocodilian
GRC-121; probably assignable to Diplocynodon (Vasilyan 2020)