Thymiana A (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as THA, Michalos clay pit

Where: Aegean, Greece (38.3° N, 26.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 26.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN5 mammal zone, Keramaria Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

• ands-silts alternated by siltstones-sandstones

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collected in 1991

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos, L. de Bonis, and S. Sen. 1995. Lophocyon paraskevaidisi, a new viverrid (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Middle Miocene of Chios island, Greece. Geobios 28(4):511-523 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 205389: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.10.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Democricetodon sp." = Copemys1, "Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis1, Cricetodon meini1, "Turkomys sp." = Cricetodon1, Megacricetodon primitivus1
"Democricetodon sp." = Copemys1 Wood 1936 rodent
"Democricetodon gracilis" = Democricetodon minor gracilis1 Fahlbusch 1964 rodent
Cricetodon meini1 Freudenthal 1963 rodent
"Turkomys sp." = Cricetodon1 Lartet 1851 rodent
Megacricetodon primitivus1 Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Sayimys intermedius2
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Microdyromys sp.1, Peridyromys sp.1
Microdyromys sp.1 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Peridyromys sp.1 Stehlin and Schaub 1951 dormouse
 Rodentia - Spalacidae
Heramys sp.1
Heramys sp.1 Klein Hofmeijer and de Bruijn 1985 mouse
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox sp.1
Alloptox sp.1 Dawson 1961 pika
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Schizogalerix sp.1
Schizogalerix sp.1 Engesser 1980 hedgehog
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet.1
Soricidae indet.1 Fischer 1814 shrew
1de Bonis et al. 1997; 2Lopez-Antonanzas et al. 2005