Samos Quarry 1 (Miocene of Greece)
Where: Greece (37.8° N, 26.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 26.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. H. Colbert. 1941. A study of Orycteropus gudryi from the Island of Samos. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 78(4):305-351 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 95691: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.04.2010, edited by Juan Benito Moreno and Evangelos Vlachos
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Taxonomic list
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Orycteropus gaudryi Forsyth Major 1888 aardvark | |
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Ancylotherium pentelicum2 Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere AMNH 23001, a mandible of a juvenile individual
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"Varanus (Varaneades) amnhophilis n. sp." = Varanus marathonensis1
"Varanus (Varaneades) amnhophilis n. sp." = Varanus marathonensis1 Weithofer 1888 monitor lizard AMNH FR 30630; right side of braincase (prootic, parabasisphenoid, otooccipital, basioccipital), right quadrate, partial right coronoid, partial palate, skull roof fragments, glenoid region of right mandible, a small fragment of the right clavicle, and five-and-a-half presacral vertebrae
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Titanochelon schafferi7 Szalai 1931 turtle AMNH 1752, a distal phalanx; AMNH 1874, seven osteoderms associated with a distal carpal; AMNH 1887, various associated distal forelimb elements including an intermedium, fused medial and lateral centralia, an ulnare, two metacarpals, three phalanges, four unguals, and 30 osteoderms; AMNH 1897, a pelvic fragment, together with a phalanx, two distal phalanges, and 13 osteoderms; AMNH 1902, an isolated osteoderm; AMNH 1905, the anterior lobe of a plastron; AMNH 6289, three osteoderms
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