Dytiko-3: Turolian, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Graecorys cf. valenciennesi
de Bonis et al. 1988
Hispanodorcas orientalis
Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon pentelici (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
Konidaris et al. 2016
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium crassum Deperet 1892
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Bovidae
Dytikodorcas longicornis n. gen., n. sp. Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
Protragelaphus theodori
de Bonis et al. 1988
Dystychoceras macedoniensis
Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
? Gazella schlosseri
Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839
Bouvrain and de Bonis 2007
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Macrotherium macedonicum n. sp. de Bonis et al. 1995
de Bonis et al. 1995
recombined as Anisodon macedonicus
LGPUT DKO 234, Almost complete cranium
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion matthewi Abel 1926
de Bonis et al. 1988
Hipparion macedonicum Koufos 1984
de Bonis et al. 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758
de Bonis et al. 1988
    = Hystrix primigenia Wagner 1848
de Bonis et al. 1992
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839
de Bonis et al. 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Macedonia
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 22.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 22.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Miocene
*Local age/stage:Late/Upper Turolian
Key time interval:Turolian
Age range of interval:8.70000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dytiko
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy marl
Secondary lithology:pebbly unlithified sandstone
Lithology description: marls, sandy marls, sands, gravels and fresh-water limestones at the top
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: This collection is in progress as of 7/04, awaiting entry of a big, gnarly, French background ref (Aramborg and Piveteau, 1929)
Metadata
Also known as:DKO
Database number:32376
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Leckey, E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-06-26 17:25:05 Last modified:2004-07-16 20:14:18
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-26 17:25:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8732.5% 18000G. D. Koufos. 1988. Study of the Turolian Hipparions of the Lower Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece). Palaeovertebrata 18(4):187-239 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]

Secondary references:

71323 G. Bouvrain and L. de Bonis. 2007. Ruminants (Mammalia, Artiodactyla : Tragulidae, Cervidae, Bovidae) des gisements du Miocène supérieur (Turolien) de Dytiko (Grèce). Annales de Paleontologie 93(2):121-147 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69452 L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain, and G. D. Koufos. 1988. Late Miocene mammal localities of the lower Axios valley (Macedonia, Greece) and their stratigraphic significance. Modern Geology 13:141-147 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
70441 L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain, D. Geraads and G. D. Koufos. 1992. A skull of Hystrix primigenia from the late Miocene of Macedonia (Greece). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 2:75-87 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
69302 L. de Bonis, G. Bouvrain, G. D. Koufos and P. Tassy. 1995. Un crâne de chalicothère (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) du Miocène supérieur de Macédoine (Grèce): remarques sur la phylogénie des Chalicotheriinae. Palaeovertebrata 24:135-176 [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]