Moschopotamos (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Pieria, Greece (40.3° N, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 21.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moschopotamos Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Biochronological data based on pollen and micromammals indicate that the Moschopotamos Fm is most likely to be of late Lower Miocene age (Benda and Meulenkamp 1979; Ioakim and 1986; Kotis 1997; Sylvestrou 2002).

Environment/lithology: delta plain; coal

• The lignite derived from helophytic reed-sedge and tree vegetation and it belongs to the Moschopotamos lithostratigraphic formation (Fm) of Katerini Basin that is exposed around the homonymous village and represents a low deltaic depositional environment (Kotis 1997; Sylvestrou 2002 and literature therein).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Kostopoulos, G. D. Koufos, and K. Christanis. 2012. On some anthracotheriid (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) remains from northern Greece: comments on the palaeozoogeography and phylogeny of Elomeryx. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 131:303-315 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208601: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 06.04.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Elomeryx sp.
Elomeryx sp. Marsh 1894 anthracothere
LGPUT MP35; right P3, LGPUT MP36; right P4, LGPUT MP37; right m1 or m2, LGPUT MP38; right m3, LGPUT MP39.