Megalos Lakkos (Miocene of Greece)

Where: Grevena, Greece (39.9° N, 21.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tsotili Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

• Various other fossils (e.g., corals, gastropods, bivalves) were found in the same level with the turtle specimen (Fig. 1b), in the molassic sediments of the Mesohellenic Basin and within consolidated sandstones, marls, and sandy marls (Fig. 1c) of the lower parts of the Tsotili Formation (I.G.M.R., 1979a, b).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N. Bacharidis in 2015

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• The specimen forms part of the collection of the School of Geology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Primary reference: E. Vlachos and N. Bacharidis. 2018. A trionychid turtle from the late Aquitanian (early Miocene) of Neochori (Grevena, Western Macedonia, Greece). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 1-3 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197718: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

• Various other invertebrate fossils (e.g., corals, gastropods, bivalves) were found in the same level with the turtle specimen, but have not been described yet.
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
LGPUT GNE-001, partial costal plate
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Euphyllia sp.
Euphyllia sp. Dana 1846 stony coral