Ambelia (Pleistocene of Greece)

Where: Grevena, Greece (40.1° N, 21.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomerate

• dark loose conglomerate, alternated with sands, pebbles, and gravels with cross-bedding and intense rubification from the regional ophiolites

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Tsoukala team in 1990 - 1995

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• The specimens are currently hosted in the Paleontological Exhibition of Milia (Grevena)

Primary reference: E. Tsoukala and A. Lister. 1998. Remains of straight-tusked elephant, Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus Falc. & Caut., 1847 ESR-dated to oxygen isotope Stage 6 from Grevena (W. Macedonia, Greece). Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 37(1):117-139 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204557: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bos primigenius
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox
an upper right M1/2 molar and right m2 molar
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus
"Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant
A partial skeleton