Nerezi (Miocene of Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of)

Where: Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of (42.0° N, 21.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 20.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• "...so the age of Nerezi could in theory be from early Miocene to Vallesian (but not later than MN9)."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Spassov, D. Geraads, L. Hristova, G. N. Markov, B. Garevska and R. Garevski. 2018. The late Miocene mammal faunas of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 311(1-6):1-85 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 197463: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Panagiotis Kampouridis on 12.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Material initially described by Laskarev (1936)
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
mandible, Achaeobelodon filholi is given as an potential alternative identification for the specimen
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon
M3