Vorio 2 (Pliocene of Greece)

Also known as VOR2

Where: Kozani, Greece (40.5° N, 21.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN14 mammal zone, Prolemais Formation, Ruscinian (5.3 - 3.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lignite

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Primary reference: E. Loreal, A. Villa, G. Georgalis and M. Delfino. 2020. Amphibians and reptiles from the late Miocene and early Pliocene of the Ptolemais area (Western Macedonia, Greece). Annales de Paléontologie 1-24 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207948: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.03.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudinoidea indet. Gray 1825 turtle
 Squamata - Natricidae
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768 water snake
Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Salientia - Ranidae
Ranidae indet. Rafinesque 1814 frog
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Latonia sp. von Meyer 1843 painted frog