Also known as Apollonia 1 APL
Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.6° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Platanochori Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• MNQ 20, latest (end) Villafranchian, Late Lower Pleistocene, end Biharian, approx. 1.0Ma?
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: Material held in the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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 34784: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 25.09.2003, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Mammalia | |
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Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear | |
Meles dimitrius badger | |
Canis apolloniensis n. sp.4, Canis apolloniensis2, "Lycaon lycaonoides" = Xenocyon lycaonoides3, Vulpes praeglacialis3
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Megantereon cultridens Cuvier 1824 cat
Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx | |
Equus apolloniensis horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer | |
Praeovibos sp. Staudinger 1908 antelope
Soergelia brigittae antelope
Hemitragus sp. Hodgson 1841 antelope
Ovis sp. Linnaeus 1758 sheep
Bison (Eobison) sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Lagurodon arankae mouse |