Karaburun: Ruscinian, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Microspalax odessanus
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de Bruijn 1984 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Viperidae
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Laophis crotaloides n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1857
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Owen 1857 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Titanochelon bacharidisi
Vlachos et al. 2014
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Vlachos 2015 | |||||||||
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Testudo cf. graeca
Linnaeus 1758
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= Testudo graeca
Linnaeus 1758
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Vlachos 2015 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion gracile
Guerin and Mein 1971
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Arambourg and Piveteau 1929 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella bailloudi n. sp.
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Arambourg and Piveteau 1929 | |||||||||
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Parabos macedoniae n. sp.
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Arambourg and Piveteau 1929 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Trischizolagus dumitrescuae
Radulesco and Samson 1967
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Koufos and Koliadimou 1993 | |||||||||
| Left and right maxillary fragments with MEV 1001; lelt mandibular fragment with P4-M2, MHV 1002, left mandibular fragment with P3-M3, MF.V 1003, left lower incisor, MEV 1004. | ||||||||||
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Trischizolagus cf. maritsae
de Bruijn et al. 1970
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Koufos and Koliadimou 1993 | |||||||||
| Left maxillary fragment with P4-M2, MEV 1005 | ||||||||||
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Oryctolagus cf. laynensis
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Koufos 2006 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Greece |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 22.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.5° North, 22.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 0 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Ruscinian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.333 - 3.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Arambourg and Piveteau (1929) report "remains of larger mammals", as cited in de Bruijn, 1984, but the reference couldn't be tracked down. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36579 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Leckey, E. Vlachos |
| Modifier: | E. Leckey | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-05 10:27:18 | Last modified: | 2004-02-05 12:45:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-05 10:27:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9797. | F. Bachmayer, M. Mlynarski, and N. Symenonidis. 1979. Fossile schildkroten aus dem Pliozan von Megalo Emvolo (Karaburun) bei Saloniki (Griechenland). Annales Geoloquies Payes Hellen 30:267-279 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |
Secondary references:
| 60908 | C. Arambourg and J. Piveteau. 1929. Les vertébrés du Pontien de Salonique. Annales de Paleontologie 18:59-83 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 9289 | 5% 24560 | H. de Bruijn. 1984. Remains of the mole-rat Microspalax odessanus Topachevski, from Karaburun (Greece, Macedonia) and the family Spalacidae. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B 87(4):417-425 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy] |
| 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] | |
| 71222 | G. D. Koufos and K. Koliadimou. 1993. Two lagomorphs from the Pliocene of Macedonia (Greece). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece 28:117-129 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 70917 | R. Owen. 1857. On the fossil vertebrae of a Serpent (Laophis crotaloides, Ow.) discovered by Capt. Spratt, R.N., in a tertiary formation at Salonica. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 13:196-199 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 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] |