Nikiti-2: MN 11, Greece
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
|
||||||||||
Testudo cf. marmorum
Gaudry 1862
|
Garcia et al. 2016 | |||||||||
complete shell | ||||||||||
= Testudo marmorum
Gaudry 1862
|
Vlachos et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Struthionidae
|
||||||||||
Struthio cf. karatheodoris
Forsyth Major 1888
|
Koufos et al. 2016 | |||||||||
tarsometatarsus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
|
||||||||||
Choerolophodon pentelici
(Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
|
||||||||||
Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
|
||||||||||
"large-sized" | ||||||||||
Hipparion dietrichi
(Wehrli 1941)
|
||||||||||
Hipparion macedonicum
Koufos 1984
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
|
||||||||||
Palaeotragus rouenii
(Gaudry 1861)
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Left P2-(part)M1, NIK-1823; distal part of humerus, NIK-1810; radius of young individual, NIK-1809; metacarpal III + IV, NIK-1807; calcaneum, NIK-1912; part of cuboscaphoid, NIK-1914; proximal metatarsal III + IV, NIK-1808; first phalanx, NIK-1913; first, second and third phalanges, NIK- 1915. | ||||||||||
Helladotherium duvernoyi
Gaudry and Lartet 1856
|
||||||||||
"Helledotherium duvernoyi" | ||||||||||
Palaeotraginae indet.
Pilgrim 1911
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Part of first phalanx lacking proximal epiphysis, NIK-211; proximal epiphysis of first phalanx, NIK-264 (young); second phalanges of young individuals, NIK-1916 (posterior?), NIK-1917 (anterior?). | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
|
||||||||||
Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
|
||||||||||
= Gazella cf. capricornis
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Partially preserved skull, NIK-1812; partially preserved skull with mandible, NIK-1142; frontlet, NIK-699; right horn-core, NIK-1819; basal part of left horn-core, NIK-1820; P2-M3, NIK-607, 1845. Possibly ascribed: right mandibular ramus with p4-m3, NIK-1892; left mandibular ramus with p3-m3, NIK- 1889, 1896; right mandibular ramus with p4-m3, NIK-1897. | ||||||||||
Gazella pilgrimi
Bohlin 1935
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Partially preserved skull, NIK-1811; frontlets, NIK-813, 1813, 1814, 1817; left horn-core, NIK-700, 1815; right horn-core, NIK-1816, 1818; palate, NIK-1899; right P2-M3, NIK-607; part of mandible with i1-m3 sin. and i1, p2-m3 dex., NIK- 778; right mandibular ramii, NIK-589, 1888, 1890, 1898, 1902; left mandibular ramii, NIK-13’, 590, 1891, 1893-1895, 1900, 1901. | ||||||||||
Palaeoryx cf. pallasi
(Wagner 1857)
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
left maxilla with P2-M3, NIK-1063. | ||||||||||
Nisidorcas planicornis
(Pilgrim 1939)
|
||||||||||
Tragoportax amalthea
(Roth and Wagner 1854)
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Skull, NIK-1688; partial skull, NIK-1687; frontlets of young individuals, NIK-1135, 1689; partly preserved hornless skull, NIK-1684; palate, NIK-423, 1685; right P2-M3, NIK- 1141; mandible, NIK-1181; left part of mandible, NIK-1675; lower tooth rows, NIK-425, 433, 1676, 1691. | ||||||||||
cf. Ouzocerus sp.
|
||||||||||
= Palaeoreas lindermayeri
Wagner 1848
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Tragoportax aff. rugosifrons
(Schlosser 1904)
|
||||||||||
"Tragoportax aff. rugosiforns" | ||||||||||
= ? Miotragocerus sp.
Stromer 1928
|
Kostopoulos 2016 | |||||||||
Partial skull with associate mandible, NIK- 764; anterior part of skull with palate, NIK-422, 1690; lower dentitions, NIK-1103, 1140, 1680, 1681. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greece |
Coordinates: | 40.2° North, 23.7° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° North, 23.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | MN 11 | ||
Age range of interval: | 8.7 - 7.75 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Nikiti | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: about 20 m higher than the Vallesian collection Nikiti 1 (NKT) "early Turolian... beginning of MN11" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | hematitic siltstone |
Lithology description: lens of "red beds"; stratigraphic section indicates fine sandstone mixed with clay, presumably meaning siltstone | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | NIK | ||
Database number: | 73869 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Kampouridis, E. Vlachos |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-07-09 11:21:58 | Last modified: | 2007-07-09 14:58:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-09 11:21:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
24807. | T. Vlachou and G. D. Koufos. 2002. The hipparions (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Turolian locality "Nikiti-2" (NIK), Macedonia, N. Greece. Annales de Paléontologie 88(4):215-263 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
61581 | G. Garcia, D. S. Kostopoulos, X. Valentin and G. D. Koufos. 2016. Testudines. Geobios 49:23-27 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
71311 | D. S. Kostopoulos. 2016. Artiodactyla - Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece). Geobios 49:119-234 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
67329 | G. D. Koufos, D. S. Kostopoulos, and G. E. Konidaris. 2016. Palaeontology of the upper Miocene vertebrate localities of Nikiti (Chalkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece) Aves. Geobios 49:29-36 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis] | |
72005 | E. Vlachos, G. L. Georgalis, S. Roussiakis, M. Bohme, and G. Theodorou. 2019. The Pikermian tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the late Miocene of the South Balkans. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(5):1-23 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |