Also known as Libakos, LIV

Where: Kozani, Greece (40.3° N, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• Combining all the biochronological data, provided from the carnivores and the chronological ones from the neighbouring Greek localities, the Libakos fauna could be dated to late Villafranchian between ~2.0 and 1.5 Ma. As the study of the Libakos fauna (bovids, cervids, equids, proboscideans) is continued, new data will allow a more precise age determination.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Eltgen in 1979–1982

Collection methods: quarrying,

• The Libakos material was collected by Eltgen during the years 1979–1982 and housed for a long time in the Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Technischen Universitat Clausthal, Germany. In 2014, the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LGPUT) asked from the above institute to give back the fossils and now they are stored in its collection.

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 34764: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 23.09.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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