Also known as PV3
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 202631: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Aves | |
? Gyps sp. Savigny 1809 vulture | |
Mammalia | |
Deinotherium proavum Eichwald 1835 deinothere AMPG-PV3/101 (new excavations); proximal part of right McII, AMPG-PV3/146 (new excavations); proximal part of left McII
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Amphimachairodus giganteus Kretzoi 1929 cat | |
Gazella capricornis gazelle
Palaeoreas lindermayeri Wagner 1848 antelope
Miotragocerus valenciennesi Gaudry 1861 antelope
Tragoportax amalthea Roth and Wagner 1854 antelope | |
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe
Bohlinia attica Lydekker 1886 giraffe | |
Microstonyx major Gervais 1848 pig | |
Dihoplus pikermiensis Toula 1906 rhinoceros | |
Ancylotherium pentelicum Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere | |
Hippotherium brachypus hipparionine horse |