Nea Silata (= SLT): Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene, Greece
collected by G. E. Syrides; K. V. Vasileiadou 1980-
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
|
||||||||||
Myomimus maritsensis
de Bruijn et al. 1970
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
|
||||||||||
Spermophilinus cf. turolensis
de Bruijn and Mein 1968
|
||||||||||
Pliopetaurista dehneli
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
|
||||||||||
Apodemus dominans
|
||||||||||
Apodemus gorafensis
|
||||||||||
Pliospalax cf. macoveii
(Simionescu 1930)
|
||||||||||
Micromys cf. paricioi
|
||||||||||
Occitanomys brailloni
Michaux 1969
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
|
||||||||||
Mesocricetus primitivus
de Bruijn et al. 1970
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
|
||||||||||
Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
|
||||||||||
Prolagus michauxi
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
|
||||||||||
Erinaceus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
|
||||||||||
Asoriculus gibberodon
|
||||||||||
Deinsdorfia kerkhoffi
Doukas et al. 1995
|
||||||||||
Amblycoptus cf. jessiae
Doukas et al. 1995
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
|
||||||||||
Vespertilionidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
|
||||||||||
Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
|
||||||||||
cf. Microstonyx major
(Gervais 1848)
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
|
||||||||||
cf. Helladotherium sp.
Gaudry 1860
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
|
||||||||||
cf. Paramachairodus orientalis
|
||||||||||
original and current combination Paramachaerodus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
|
||||||||||
Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
|
||||||||||
= Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
Vlachos et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
|
||||||||||
Mauremys aristotelica
Vlachos et al. 2019
|
Vlachos et al. 2019 | |||||||||
LGPUT SLT, various shell fragments | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Greece | State/province: | Chalkidiki |
Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 23.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 22.8° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | Mammal zone: | MN13/14 |
Age range of interval: | 11.60800 - 3.60000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 5.3 Ma (other) |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | silty claystone |
Secondary lithology: | muddy siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: The micromammals come from bed 2 (silts-clays) and bed 3 (clayey-marly sands) | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: The ecological adaptation of each taxon, the composition of the fauna, the lithology of the fossiliferous beds, the presence of the non-micromammalian fossils and the lignite elements suggest an open and dry environment, with water spots (lakes, swamps, springs) in the wider area. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),sieve,field collection,survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) | ||
Collection size: | 500 specimens | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | G. E. Syrides; K. V. Vasileiadou | Collection dates: | 1980- |
Collection method comments: During the 1980s, one of the authors (G.S.), working for his thesis in the area, found a level with micromammals near the village of Nea Silata (Fig. 1). At that time, he collected a poor sample and the fauna initially determined by Aguilar suggested an early Ruscinian age for the corresponding deposits (Syrides 1990). |
Metadata
Database number: | 191612 | ||
Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
Created: | 2018-02-02 11:38:58 | Last modified: | 2018-02-02 11:38:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-02 11:38:58 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
64621. | K. Vasileiadou, G. D. Koufos, and G. E. Syrides. 2003. Silata, a new locality with micromammals from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary of the Chalkidiki peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. In J. W. F. Reumer, W. Wessels (eds.), Deinsea 10:549-562 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/O. Alfaro] |
Secondary references:
66752 | E. Vlachos, J. Sterli, K. Vasileiadou and G. Syrides. 2019. A new species of Mauremys (Testudines, Geoemydidae) from the Late Miocene - Pliocene of Central Macedonia (Northern Greece) with excpetionally wide vertebral scutes. Papers in Palaeontology 5(1):177-195 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |