Fossil collection from Samos Island in the Geological Museum of Lausanne: Late/Upper Miocene, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Tragoceros valenciennesi
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Tragoceros amaltheus
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Acanthomys gaudryi
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Mastodon pentelici
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= Choerolophodon pentelici
Gaudry and Lartet 1856
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Konidaris and Koufos 2019 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mastodon turicensis
Schintz 1824
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| recombined as Zygolophodon turicensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Dinotherium sp.
(Kaup 1829)
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= Deinotherium proavum
Eichwald 1835
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Konidaris and Koufos 2019 | |||||||||
| MGL-S 1048/S 380; left mandibular fragment with the dp4, MGL-S 381 [the MGL specimens originate from “Andriano”; MGL-S 380 and S 381 were attributed to “Mastodon turicensis” by Forsyth Major (1894)] | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus gaudryi n. sp.
Forsyth Major 1888
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
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Chiroptera indet.
Blumenbach 1779
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= Samonycteris majori n. gen., n. sp.
Revilliod 1917
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Revilliod 1917 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion mediterraneum
Roth and Wagner 1855
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Hipparion minus
(Sellards 1916)
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| synonym of Nannippus aztecus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros pachygnathus
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Rhinoceros schleiermacheri
Kaup 1834
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| recombined as Dihoplus schleiermacheri | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Chalicotherium pentelici
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Samotherium boissieri
Forsyth Major 1888
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Helladotherium duvernoyi
Gaudry and Lartet 1856
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Palaeotragus rouenii
(Gaudry 1861)
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Mammalia
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? Dremotherium pentelici
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Prostrepsiceros sp.
Forsyth Major 1891
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Gazella deperdita
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Palaeoreas lindermayeri
(Wagner 1848)
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| original and current combination Antilope lindermayeri | ||||||||||
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Criotherium argalioides
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Helicophora rotundicornis
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| replaced by Helicotragus | ||||||||||
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? Capra sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Palaeoryx pallasii
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Palaeoryx rotundicornis
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Protoryx longiceps
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Protoryx gaudryi
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Protoryx hippolyte
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Protoryx carolinae
Major 1891
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus erymanthius
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis neas
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Machairodus sp.
Kaup 1833
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena eximia
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Ictitherium orbignyi
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Ictitherium robustum
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Ictitherium hipparionum
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Lycaena chaeretis
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| original and current combination Lycyaena | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Meles maraghanus
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Mustela palaeattica
Weithofer 1888
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Promephitis larteti
Gaudry 1861
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Titanochelon schafferi
Szalai 1931
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Vlachos et al. 2020 | |||||||||
| a series of osteoderms and other specimens | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Struthio caratheodoris
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Geography
| Country: | Greece | State/province: | Aegean |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° North, 26.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 26.6° 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Geological Museum of Lausanne | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 202120 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Vlachos | ||
| Created: | 2019-06-24 13:04:58 | Last modified: | 2019-06-24 13:05:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-06-24 13:04:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 69231. | C. I. Forsyth Major. 1888. Sur un gisement d’ossements fossiles dans l’île de Samos, contemporains l’âge de Pikermi. Compte Rendus de l‘Academie des Sciences, Paris 118:608-610 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |
Secondary references:
| 69473 | G. E. Konidaris and G. D. Koufos. 2019. Late Miocene proboscideans from Samos Island (Greece) revisited: new specimens from old collections. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 93(1):115-134 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 69964 | P. Revilliod. 1917. Contribution a l'etude des Chiropteres des terrains tertiares. Memoires de la Societe Paleontologique Suisse 43:1-194 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 72007 | E. Vlachos, A. Pérez-García, S. Roussiakis, G. L. Georgalis, and B. P. Kear. 2020. Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: Implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1722950)1-18 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |