Thermopigi: Turolian, Greece
collected 1998 - 2007

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. matthewi Abel 1926
Hipparion cf. dietrichi (Wehrli 1941)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Dicerorhinus pikermiensis Toula 1906
Mammalia - Suidae
Microstonyx major (Gervais 1848)
Propotamochoerus cf. hysudricus Stehlin 1899
Mammalia - Bovidae
Prostrepsiceros cf. axiosi
Tragoportax cf. amalthea (Roth and Wagner 1854)
Palaeoreas lindermayeri (Wagner 1848)
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
? Criotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1891
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
Xafis et al. 2019
cf. Palaeotragus rouenii (Gaudry 1861)
    = Palaeotragus rouenii Gaudry 1861
Xafis et al. 2019
Bohlinia cf. attica (Lydekker 1886)
    = Samotherium major Bohlin 1926
Xafis et al. 2019
Helladotherium duvernoyi Gaudry and Lartet 1856
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Paramachairodus sp. (Pilgrim 1913)
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833
Felis attica Wagner 1857
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Mammalia - Proboscidea
Elephantimorpha indet. Tassy and Shoshani 1997
Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019
Right humerus, SIT-605; right ulna, SIT-609; left prox-imal ulna articulated with proximal radius, SIT-602; left femur,SIT-601; right tibia, SIT-608; left tibia, SIT-28; proximal epiphysisof left tibia, SIT-606
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium sp. Kaup 1829
Konidaris and Tsoukala 2019
Left scapula fragment, SIT-607
see common names

Geography
Country:Greece State/province:Macedonia County:Serres
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 23.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 23.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Turolian
Age range of interval: 8.7 - 5.333 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red lithified sandstone
Lithology description: "consolidated reddish sandstones"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1998 - 2007
Collection method comments: collection is in the Department of Geology, University of Athens and in the Municipal Museum of Natural History of Thermopigi
Metadata
Database number:73553
Authorizer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-19 14:59:14 Last modified:2007-06-19 17:59:14
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-19 14:59:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24670. D. Geraads, E. Tsoukala, and N. Spassov. 2007. A skull of Ancylotherium (Chalicotheriidae, Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Thermopigi (Serres, N. Greece) and the relationships of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):461-466 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

70959 G. E. Konidaris and E. Tsoukala. 2019. Proboscideans from the upper Miocene localities of Thermopigi, Neokaisareia and Platania (Northern Greece). Annales de Paléontologie 1-15 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
70746 A. Xafis, E. Tsoukala, N. Solounias, O. Mandic, M. Harzhauser, F. GrĂ­msson, and D. Nagel. 2019. Fossil Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the late Miocene of Thermopigi (Macedonia, Greece). Palaeontologia Electronica 22.3.67:1-38 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]