Gefira 1 (=GAS1): Pliocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
|
||||||||||
|
Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
|
||||||||||
|
Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
|
||||||||||
|
Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017 | |||||||||
| Metatarsal fragment of left Mt III+IV, GAS 15 | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Bovidae
|
||||||||||
|
Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
|
= Parabos savelisi n. sp.
Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017
|
Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017 | |||||||||
| 2 partial skulls | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Cervidae
|
||||||||||
|
Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
|
= Procapreolus cusanus
Croizet and Jobert 1928
|
Cregut-Bonnoure and Tsoukala 2017 | |||||||||
| Skull fragment with the left beam almost completely preserved, GAS 24; right beam fragment, GAS 25; right mandibular fragment with m1 and m2, GAS 26. | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
|
||||||||||
|
Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
|
||||||||||
| Identified as Pan-Trionychidae indet. | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Thessaloniki |
| Coordinates: | 40.8° North, 22.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.6° North, 22.5° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,gray unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Gephyra | ||
| Database number: | 182685 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2016-11-22 07:59:39 | Last modified: | 2018-07-06 12:29:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-11-22 07:59:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60888. | E. Vlachos, I. Cerda, and E. Tsoukala. 2015. The first record of a soft-shelled turtle (Testudines: Pan-Trionychidae) from southern Balkans (Pliocene, Gefira, N. Greece) and new information from bone histology. Science of Nature 102(45):1-9 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 62999 | E. Cregut-Bonnoure and E. Tsoukala. 2017. The Pliocene Artiodactyla and Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Gephyra (lower Axios valley, Macedonia, Greece). Discovery of a new boselaphine. Quaternary International [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |