PBDB Collection

Pikermi (old collection): Late/Upper Miocene, Greece

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Leptodon graecus	Gaudry 1867

	Paleotragus rouenii	Gaudry 1867
Reptilia - Squamata

	Squamata indet. Oppel 1811	Georgalis 2019
	A trunk vertebra (UU PK 1006), a tooth bearing bone (UU PK 1003)
Reptilia - Anguidae

	? Anguinae indet. Gray 1825	Georgalis 2019
	A caudal vertebra (UU PK 1013)
Reptilia - Varanidae

	Varanus marathonensis n. sp. Weithofer 1888	Weithofer 1888
	Lectotype. IPUW 1888-001-001, a slab preserving at least a left incomplete maxilla.

	Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824	Gaudry 1867
	MNHN material, vertebra
	= Varanus atticus n. sp. Nopcsa 1908	Nopcsa 1908
	synonym of Varanus marathonensis
Reptilia - Boidae

	? Erycinae indet. Bonaparte 1825	Georgalis 2019
	A trunk vertebra (UU PK 1010)
Reptilia - Colubridae

	Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811	Georgalis 2019
	Three caudal vertebrae (UU PK 1007–UU PK 1009)
Reptilia - Lacertidae

	Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831	Georgalis 2019
	A right dentary (UU PK 1001); a left dentary (UU PK 1002); a fragment of a tooth bearing bone (UU PK 1004); an isolated tooth (UU PK 1012)
Reptilia - Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae

	Ciconia gaudryi n. sp. Lambrecht 1933	Lambrecht 1933
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae

	Grus pentelici n. sp.
Reptilia - Phasianidae

	Gallus aescullapi n. sp.

	Phasianus archiaci n. sp. Gaudry 1862
	recombined as Pavo archiaci
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Testudo marmorum n. sp. Gaudry 1862
	Additional specimens in AMPG (Athens) in Bachmayer & Symeonidis (1970)

	Testudo cf. schafferi Szalai 1931	Bachmayer 1967
	AMPG material
	= Titanochelon sp. Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014	Vlachos 2015
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae

	Mastodon turicensis Schintz 1824	Gaudry 1867
	= Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799	Konidaris 2013
	? Mammut obliquelophus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae

	Mastodon pentelici	Gaudry 1867
	= Choerolophodon pentelici Gaudry and Lartet 1856	Konidaris et al. 2016
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae

	Dinotherium sp. (Kaup 1829)	Gaudry 1867

	Deinotherium proavum (Eichwald 1835)	Konidaris et al. 2017
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Mastodon atticus n. sp. Wagner 1857	Wagner 1857
	recombined as Konobelodon atticus
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

	Mesopithecus pentelici	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae

	Lamprodon primigenius n. gen., n. sp. Wagner 1848	Wagner 1848
	recombined as Hystrix primigenia
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Metarctos diaphorus	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Mustela pentelici	Gaudry 1867

	Mustela palaeattica n. sp. Weithofer 1888	Weithofer 1888

	Gulo primigenius n. sp. Roth and Wagner 1854	Roth and Wagner 1854
	BSPM-PIK-AS II.53 (holotype), right mandibular ramus with c–m1
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae

	Promephitis lartetii	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae

	Hyaena eximia	Gaudry 1867

	Hyaena chaeretis	Gaudry 1867

	Ictitherium robustum	Gaudry 1867

	Ictitherium hipparionum	Gaudry 1867

	Ictitherium orbignyi	Gaudry 1867

	Hyaenictis graeca Gaudry 1861	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	Felidae sp. Gray 1821	Gaudry 1867

	Machairodus schlosseri n. sp. Weithofer 1888	Weithofer 1888
	recombined as Paramachaerodus schlosseri

	Machairodus leoninus	Weithofer 1888

	Machaerodus cultridens	Gaudry 1867
	original and current combination Machairodus

	Felis attica n. sp. Wagner 1857	Salesa et al. 2012
	recombined as Pristifelis attica
Mammalia

	Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Giraffidae

	Camelopardalis attica Lydekker 1886	Gaudry 1867
	recombined as Bohlinia attica

	Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Bovidae

	Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner 1848)	Gaudry 1867
	original and current combination Antilope lindermayeri

	Gazella brevicornis	Gaudry 1867

	Tragocerus amaltheus	Gaudry 1867

	Palaeoryx pallasii	Gaudry 1867

	Antidorcas rothii	Gaudry 1867

	Palaeoryx parvidens Gaudry 1861	Gaudry 1867
	recombined as Sporadotragus parvidens

	Tragocerus valenciennesi Gaudry 1861	Gaudry 1867
	recombined as Miotragocerus valenciennesi

	Helicoceras rotundicorne n. gen., n. sp. Weithofer 1888	Weithofer 1888
Mammalia

	Dremotherium pentelici	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Tragulidae

	Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839	Koufos 2006
Mammalia - Suidae

	Sus erymanthius	Gaudry 1867
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Hipparion gracile Guerin and Mein 1971	Gaudry 1867
	synonym of Hipparion depereti
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Rhinoceros schleiermacheri Kaup 1834	Gaudry 1867
	recombined as Dihoplus schleiermacheri

	Rhinoceros pachygnathus	Gaudry 1867

	Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758	Gaudry 1867

	Acerotherium sp. (Kaup 1834)	Gaudry 1867
	= Acerorhinus neleus Athanassiou et al. 2014	Athanassiou et al. 2014
	partially preserved mandible PIK-957 (MNHN)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae

	Ancylotherium n. gen. pentelici (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)	Gaudry 1867
	recombined as Ancylotherium pentelicum
see common names

Geography

Country:	Greece	State/province:	Attica
Coordinates:	38.0° North, 24.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	37.7° North, 23.6° East

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:	11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy comments: precise stratigraphy unknown, as the collection was made in several quarries and in different fossiliferous horizons

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	fluvial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	AMNH,BMNH,MNHN,NHMW
Collection method comments: More material stored in UU, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Metadata

Also known as:	Pikermi
Database number:	182754
Authorizer:	E. Vlachos, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd	Enterer:	E. Vlachos, M. Uhen, P. Holroyd
Modifier:	B. Allen
Created:	2016-11-23 13:34:47	Last modified:	2023-08-08 08:28:31
Access level:	the public	Released:	2016-11-23 13:34:47
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

60921.

A. Gaudry. 1862. Note sur les débris d'oiseaux et de reptiles trouvés a Pikermi (Grece), suivie de quelques remarques de paléontologie générale. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 19:629-640 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

66528		A. Athanassiou, S. J. Roussiakis, I. X. Giaourtsakis, G. E. Theodorou, and G. Iliopoulos. 2014. A new hornless rhinoceros of the genus Acerorhinus (Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) from the Upper Miocene of Kerassiá (Euboea, Greece), with a revision of related forms. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 303(1-3):23-59 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
60955		F. Bachmayer. 1967. Eine riesenschildkröte aus den Altpliozänen schichten von Pikermi (Griechenland). Annales Geologiques des Pays Helleniques 18:512-526 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
60956		F. Bachmayer and N. Symeonidis. 1970. Die fossilen Schildkrötenreste des geologisch-paläontologischen Institutes der Universität von Athen. Annales Géologiques des Pays Helléniques 22:227-246 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
60922		A. Gaudry. 1867. Animaux Fossiles et Géologie de l'Attique. 1-474 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
71047		G. L. Georgalis. 2019. Poor but classic: The squamate fauna from the late Miocene of Pikermi, near Athens, Greece. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:801-815 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Holroyd]
69439		G. E. Konidaris. 2013. Palaeontological and biostratigraphical study of the Neogene Proboscidea from Greece. Ph.D. thesis, Scientific Annals of School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 153:1-326 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69398		G. E. Konidaris, G. D. Koufos, D. S. Kostopoulos and G. Merceron. 2016. Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Choerolophodon (Proboscidea, Mammalia) in the Miocene of SE Europe-SW Asia: implications for phylogeny and biogeography. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 14:1-27 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69453		G. E. Konidaris, S. J. Roussiakis, G. E. Theodorou and G. D. Koufos. 2014. The Eurasian occurrence of the shovel-tusker Konobelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) as illuminated by its presence in the late Miocene of Pikermi (Greece). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:1437-1453 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69438		G. E. Konidaris, S. J. Roussiakis, A. Athanassiou and G. E. Theodorou. 2017. The huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene localities Pikermi and Halmyropotamos (Greece). Quaternary International 430(A):5-21 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
61193		G. Koufos. 2006. The Neogene mammal localities of Greece: Faunas, chronology and biostratigraphy. Hellenic Journal of Geosciences 41:183-214 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/T. Cleary]
65508		K. Lambrecht. 1933. Handbuch der Palaeornithologie. 1-1024 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
70900		F. Nopcsa. 1908. Zur Kenntnis der fossilen Eidechsen. Beitrage zur Palaontologie und Geologie Osterreich-ungarns und des Orients 21:33-62 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
70921		J. Roth and A. Wagner. 1854. Die fossilen Knochenüberreste von Pikermi in Griechenland. Abhandlungen der mathematisch−physikalischen Classeder Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:371-464 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
67425		M. J. Salesa, M. Antón, J. Morales and S. Peigné. 2012. Systematics and phylogeny of the small felines (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(1):87-102 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
65163		E. Vlachos. 2015. The Fossil Chelonians of Greece. Systematics - Evolution - Stratigraphy - Palaeoecology. Scientific Annals of the School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 173:1-479 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
70445		A. Wagner. 1848. Urweltliche Säugthier-Ueberreste aus Griechenland. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 5:333-510 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Wagner]
69468		A. Wagner. 1857. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der fossilen Säugthier-Ueberreste von Pikermi. Abh bayerisch Akad Wiss 8:109-158 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69945		A. Weithofer. 1888. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna von Pikermi bei Athen. Beitr Paläontol Geol Österr-Ung Orients 6:255-292 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]