Also known as MYT
Where: Samos, Greece (37.8° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 26.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Main Bone Beds Member (Mytilinii Formation), Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by GD Koufos team in 1985 - present
Primary reference: G. D. Koufos, G. E. Syrides, D. S. Kostopoulos, K. K. Koliadimou, I. A. Sylvestrou, G. Ch Seitanidis, and T. D. Vlachos. 1997. New excavations in the Neogene mammalian localities of Mytilinii, Samos Island, Greece. Geodiversitas 19(4):877-885 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202218: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 01.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
|
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
Hipparion cf. proboscideum hipparionine horse | |
|
Ancylotherium pentelicum1 Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere Proximal phalanx, MYT-15; right Mt-III, MYT- 64
| |
"Dicerorhinus cf. pikermiensis" = Dihoplus pikermiensis
"Dicerorhinus cf. pikermiensis" = Dihoplus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros | |
? Palaeoryx sp.2, Skoufotragus zemalisorum n. sp.2, Gazella pilgrimi2, Protoryx cf. laticeps, Protoryx sp., cf. Pseudotragus sp., ? Majoreas sp.2, Sporadotragus parvidens2
Protoryx cf. laticeps antelope
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope
cf. Pseudotragus sp. Schlosser 1904 antelope | |
|
Samotherium boissieri Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe | |