Also known as TSR
Where: central Macedonia , Greece (40.5° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Gerakarou Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• The Gerakarou Fm consists of red-brown sands, gravels, sandy silts, and clays, deposited in a fluvial/fluvio-torrential environment
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2014-present
Collection methods: quarrying,
• TSR was discovered in 2014 during a targeted survey by a joint team from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Paleoanthropology working group at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
•TSR has yielded more than 2000 mammalian bones and teeth to date, which are stored at the Museum of Geology, Palaeontology, and Palaeoanthropology of the Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (LGPUT).
Primary reference: G.E. Konidaris, V. Tourloukis, D.S. Kostopoulos, N. Thompson, D. Giusti, D. Michailidis, G.D. Koufos and K. Harvatia. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14:353-362 [M. Uhen/M. Chua]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 197943: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Marcus Chua on 02.12.2018, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Aves | |
Corvus pliocaenus Portis 1887 crow | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth | |
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena | |
Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat | |
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine | |
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe | |
Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Praemegaceros sp. Portis 1920 deer
Metacervocerus rhenanus Dubois 1904 deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Equus "sp. medium-sized" Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus "sp. large-sized" Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros |