Agios Georgios Cave (Pleistocene of Greece)

Also known as SGK

Where: Kilkis, Greece (41.0° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• ESR dating on a hyena tooth, by Bassiakos and Tsoukala (1996)

Environment/lithology: cave; breccia

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: bone collector

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• specimens are deposited in the Palaeontological Exhibition of the Agios Georgios Hill, Kilkis

Primary reference: E. Tsoukala. 1992. The Pleistocene large mammals from the Agios Georgios Cave, Kilkis (Macedonia, N. Greece). Geobios 25(3):415-433 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207192: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 31.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela putorius Linnaeus 1758 European polecat
robusta
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena
spelaea
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
cf. germanicus
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox