Tsiotra Vryssi (Pleistocene of Greece)

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

• The ~1 m thick fossiliferous unit Geo 2a consists of pale brown-dark yellowish brown poorly sorted silts, locally intercalated by cm-thick lenses of medium-coarse grained sands and is relatively more clayey in its uppermost part.

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
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Aves
 Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus pliocaenus Portis 1887 crow
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines
"Chelonii indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus meridionalis Nesti 1825 mammoth
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Pachycrocuta brevirostris Gervais 1850 brown hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758 canine
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Praemegaceros sp. Portis 1920 deer
Metacervocerus rhenanus Dubois 1904 deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus "sp. medium-sized" Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus "sp. large-sized" Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Stephanorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942 rhinoceros