PBDB Collection

Antonios (Miocene to of Greece)

Also known as ANT

Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.5° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 22.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Antonios Formation, MN 4 to MN 4 (16.9 - 13.7 Ma)

• "upper part of MN 4 to lower part of MN 5"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; conglomerate and brown, red, silty claystone

• "mixed, coarse, clastic sediments (gravels, pebbles, sands) with more fine grained, red-brown, silty-clayey sediments (old terra-rossa); in many cases the coarse material appears as lenses with lateral continuity into the overlying deposits of the Antonios Fm"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, salvage, sieve,

• fossils "were recovered after an artificial cutting for the construction of a road"

•most material described by Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 was collected by screenwashing after the original report of Koufos and Syrides, but that paper also reports some screenwashed material

Primary reference: G. D. Koufos and G. E. Syrides. 1997. A new Early/Mididle Miocene mammal locality from Macedonia, Greece. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 325(7):511-516 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73861: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.07.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Proboscidea - Proboscidea	Proboscidea indet.¹ Proboscidea indet.¹ proboscidean
Chiroptera - Megadermatidae	cf. Megadermatidae indet.⁴ cf. Megadermatidae indet.⁴ Allen 1864 false vampire
Rodentia - Sciuridae	Spermophilinus besanus⁴, Palaeosciurus sutteri⁴ Spermophilinus besanus⁴ Cuenca 1988 squirrel Palaeosciurus sutteri⁴ Ziegler and Fahlbusch 1986 squirrel
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Democricetodon franconicus⁴, Cricetodon meini, Megacricetodon primitivus Democricetodon franconicus⁴ Fahlbusch 1966 rodent Cricetodon meini Freudenthal 1963 rodent Megacricetodon primitivus Mein and Freudenthal 1971 rodent
Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae	Sayimys sp.⁴ Sayimys sp.⁴ Wood 1937 gundi
Rodentia - Gliridae	cf. Microdyromys (Microdyromys) sp.⁴ cf. Microdyromys (Microdyromys) sp.⁴ de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Rodentia - Muridae	Pliospalax sp.⁴ Pliospalax sp.⁴ Kormos 1932 blind mole
Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae	Alloptox anatoliensis⁴, Prolagus sp.⁴ Alloptox anatoliensis⁴ Unay and Sen 1976 pika Prolagus sp.⁴ Pomel 1853 pika
Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae	Schizogalerix sp.⁴ Schizogalerix sp.⁴ Engesser 1980 hedgehog
Soricomorpha - Talpidae	Desmanodon sp.² Desmanodon sp.² Engesser 1980 mole "Paratalpa/Desmanodon"
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	cf. Crocidosoricinae indet.⁴ cf. Crocidosoricinae indet.⁴ Reumer 1987 shrew
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Bunolistriodon lockharti Bunolistriodon lockharti pig
Artiodactyla -	Sanitherium schlagintweiti Sanitherium schlagintweiti von Meyer 1866 ruminant
Artiodactyla - Tragulidae	Dorcatherium sp., Dorcatherium guntianum³, Dorcatherium cf. crassum³, Dorcabune cf. anthracotherioides³ Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839 chevrotain "small-sized" Dorcatherium guntianum³ von Meyer 1846 chevrotain Right maxillary fragment with M1-M3, ANT-95; isolated right M3, ANT-96; left mandibular fragment with p4-m3, ANT-94; right mandibular fragment with p4-m3, ANT-6; right mandibular fragment with m2-m3, ANT-109; left mandibular fragment with m1- m2, ANT-14; isolated right m3, ANT-97 Dorcatherium cf. crassum³ Lartet 1851 chevrotain Dorcabune cf. anthracotherioides³ Pilgrim 1910 chevrotain Left mandibular fragment with m1-m3, ANT-100; left mandibular fragment with m2-m3, ANT-4
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Eotragus sp. Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939 antelope
Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae	Palaeomeryx cf. kaupi Palaeomeryx cf. kaupi von Meyer 1834 ruminant
Carnivora - Felidae	"Pseudaelurus cf. lorteti" = Miopanthera lorteti, Pseudaelurus quadridentatus "Pseudaelurus cf. lorteti" = Miopanthera lorteti Gaillard 1899 cat Pseudaelurus quadridentatus de Blainville 1843 cat

¹Alroy 2007; ²Doukas 2005; ³Koufos 2020; ⁴Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005