Pikermi Valley-1 (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as PV1

Where: Attica, Greece (38.0° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 23.6° E)

When: Pikermi Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2008-2013; reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: S. Roussiakis, A. Athanassiou, D. Michailidis, V. Mitsopoulou, C. Solomos and G. Theodorou. 2014. Remarks on new proboscidean remains from the classical Late Miocene locality of Pikermi and their associated fauna . In D. S. Kostopoulos, E. Vlachos, E. Tsoukala (eds.), 6th International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena-Siatista. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 171-172 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202630: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
"Phasianus archiaci" = Pavo archiaci
"Phasianus archiaci" = Pavo archiaci Gaudry 1862 peafowl
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo cf. marmorum Gaudry 1862 turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
Amphimachairodus giganteus Kretzoi 1929 cat
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Palaeoryx pallasi Wagner 1857 antelope
Palaeoreas lindermayeri Wagner 1848 antelope
Tragoportax amalthea Roth and Wagner 1854 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus rouenii Gaudry 1861 giraffe
Bohlinia attica Lydekker 1886 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium brachypus hipparionine horse
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839 monkey
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix primigenia Wagner 1848 porcupine