Volax (Pliocene to of Greece)

Also known as VOL Wolaks

Where: Macedonia, Greece (41.3° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Villanyian to Villanyian (3.2 - 0.0 Ma)

• Middle Villanyian, Middle Villafranchian, MNQ17, Pliocene (but Tsoukala (1992) says Early Pleistocene).

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34593: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 11.09.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse
Equus stenonis cf. vireti
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Croizetoceros ramosus Croizet and Jobert 1828 deer
""Cervus" philisi" = Metacervocerus philisi Mennecart et al. 2017 deer
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
cf. Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope
Gallogoral meneghinii antelope
Gallogoral meneghinii sickenbergii
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
? Procamptoceras sp. Schaub 1923 antelope
 Carnivora - Felidae
? Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx
Megantereon megantereon Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes praecorsac Kormos 1932 fox
Nyctereutes megamastoides Pomel 1842 raccoon dog
Nyctereutes megamastiodes megamastoides