Antonios: MN 4 - MN 5, Greece

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Pseudaelurus cf. lorteti Gaillard 1899
Pseudaelurus quadridentatus (de Blainville 1843)
Mammalia - Suidae
Bunolistriodon lockharti
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839
"small-sized"
Dorcatherium guntianum von Meyer 1846
Koufos 2020 7 specimens
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. peneckei (Hoffmann 1892)
    = Dorcatherium cf. crassum Lartet 1851
Koufos 2020
Dorcabune cf. anthracotherioides Pilgrim 1910
Koufos 2020 2 specimens
Left mandibular fragment with m1-m3, ANT-100; left mandibular fragment with m2-m3, ANT-4
Mammalia
Sanitherium schlagintweiti von Meyer 1866
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomeryx cf. kaupi von Meyer 1834
Mammalia - Bovidae
Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
23 specimens
    = Schizogalerix sp. Engesser 1980
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 3 specimens
"Paratalpa/Desmanodon"
    = Desmanodon sp. Engesser 1980
Doukas 2005
Mammalia - Soricidae
cf. Crocidosoricinae indet. Reumer 1987
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 8 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Alloptox anatoliensis Unay and Sen 1976
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 18 specimens
Prolagus sp. Pomel 1853
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Palaeosciurus sutteri Ziegler and Fahlbusch 1986
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 5 specimens
Spermophilinus besanus Cuenca 1988
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 7 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Pliospalax sp. Kormos 1932
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon mutilus (Fahlbusch 1964)
45 specimens
    = Democricetodon franconicus Fahlbusch 1966
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005
Cricetodon meini Freudenthal 1963
62 specimens
Megacricetodon primitivus Mein and Freudenthal 1971
52 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Gliridae
cf. Microdyromys (Microdyromys) sp. de Bruijn 1966
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Sayimys sp. Wood 1937
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 2 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Mastodon sp. Cuvier 1817
    = Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Megadermatidae
cf. Megadermatidae indet. Allen 1864
Vasileiadou and Koufos 2005 2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Macedonia
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 23.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 22.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian - Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: MN 4 - MN 5
Age range of interval: 16.9 - 13.82 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Antonios
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "upper part of MN 4 to lower part of MN 5"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Secondary lithology:brown,red silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "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"
Environment:fissure fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,salvage,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: 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
Metadata
Also known as:ANT
Database number:73861
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-07-06 17:27:03 Last modified:2007-07-07 00:18:54
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-06 17:27:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24772. 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]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
73905 C. S. Doukas. 2005. Greece. In L. W. van den Hoek Ostende, C. S. Doukas, J. W. F. Reumer (eds.), The Fossil Record of the Eurasian Neogene Insectivores (Erinaceomorpha, Soricomorpha, Mammalia), Part I. Scripta Geologica Special Issue 5:99-112 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
73280 G. D. Koufos. 2020. New tragulid remains from the early/middle Miocene and a revision of their occurrence in Greece. Historical Biology 1-16 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
24771 K. Vasileiadou and G. D. Koufos. 2005. The micromammals from the Early/Middle Miocene locality of Antonios, Chalkidiki, Greece. Annales de Paléontologie 91(3):197-225 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]