Nikiti-1 (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as NKT

Where: Sithonia, Greece (40.2° N, 23.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 23.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN10 mammal zone, Nikiti Formation, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• Stratigraphically, NKT is located in the upper levels of the Nikiti Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; hematitic sandstone

• in one of the lenses with redbrown sands and clayey sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2016. Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece): History, stratigraphy and fossiliferous sites. Geobios 49:3-10 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202729: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Hispanodorcas cf. orientalis2
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Microstonyx major2
Microstonyx major2 Gervais 1848 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Miotragocerus cf. pannoniae2, Prostrepsiceros houtumschindleri2
Miotragocerus cf. pannoniae2 Kretzoi 1941 antelope
Prostrepsiceros houtumschindleri2 Rodler and Weithofer 1890 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Helladotherium duvernoyi2, Palaeotragus sp.2, Bohlinia attica2
Helladotherium duvernoyi2 Gaudry and Lartet 1856 giraffe
Palaeotragus sp.2 Gaudry 1861 giraffe
Bohlinia attica2 Lydekker 1886 giraffe
 Proboscidea -
Proboscidea indet.1
Proboscidea indet.1 Illiger 1811 proboscidean
1Konidaris and Koufos 2016; 2Kostopoulos 2016