Agios Nikolaos (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as NKL

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

• Paleocoordinates: 37.5° N, 24.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nikolaos Formation, Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; hematitic sandstone

• Some remains of large mammals have been found in the red-brown sands (Syrides, 1990). The washing of the clays indicated the presence of some micromammalian dental fragments. Above the lacustrine deposits, there is a level with hard sands, sandy marls where we found some bones and dental remains of hipparions

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 202730: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 19.07.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse