Apollonia (Pleistocene of Greece)

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

• New species of Canid named in Koufos and Kostopoulos (1997). Only skulls and teeth included in numbers of specimens given in Koufos and Kostopoulos (1997).
unclassified
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Pontoceros ambiguus
Pontoceros ambiguus mediterraneus
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp.1 Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus etruscus Cuvier 1823 bear
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis apolloniensis n. sp.4 Koufos and Kostopoulos 1997 canine
Canis apolloniensis2 Koufos and Kostopoulos 1997 canine
"Lycaon lycaonoides" = Xenocyon lycaonoides3 Kretzoi 1938 canine
Vulpes praeglacialis3 Kormos 1932 fox
 Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon cultridens Cuvier 1824 cat
Lynx issiodorensis Croizet and Jobert 1828 lynx
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Eucladoceros sp. Falconer 1868 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Praeovibos sp. Staudinger 1908 antelope
Hemitragus sp. Hodgson 1841 antelope
Ovis sp. Linnaeus 1758 sheep
Bison (Eobison) sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
 Rodentia - Cricetidae