Where: Chalkidiki, Greece (40.4° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 22.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN13/14 mammal zone, Silata Member (Gonia Formation), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• Based on biochronology, the age of the locality is on the boundary of Miocene/Pliocene

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; silty claystone and muddy siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by G. E. Syrides; K. V. Vasileiadou in 1980-

Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve, ,

• 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).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191612: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.02.2018

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