Also known as RVL Ravin Voulgarakis
Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.6° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 23.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Platanochori Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• MNQ 20, Latest Villafrachian, end Biharian, late Lower Pleistocene, approx 1.0Ma?
Environment/lithology:
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. D. Koufos. 2001. The Villafranchian mammalian faunas and biochronology of Greece. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 40(2):217-223 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34783: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 25.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Spermophilus nogaici ground squirrel | |
Sicista subtilis Pallas 1773 southern birch mouse | |
Apodemus mystacinus Danford and Alston 1877 Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
"Apodemus sylvaticus" = Mus sylvaticus Linnaeus 1758 wood mouse
Pliospalax senii blind mole | |
Kislangia sp. Kretzoi 1954 mouse
Cricetinus koufosi mouse
Mimomys savini vole
Microtus pitymyoides vole
Lagurodon arankae mouse | |
Glis aff. glis Linnaeus 1766 edible doormouse
Myomimus sp. Ognev 1924 dormouse | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Canis arnensis Del Campana 1913 canine | |
"Putorius sp." = Mustela (Putorius)
"Putorius sp." = Mustela (Putorius) Cuvier 1817 polecat | |
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"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis
"Equus stenonis" = Allohippus stenonis Cocchi 1867 horse | |
Crocidura kornfeldi, Sorex cf. minutus, Sorex (Drepanosorex) cf. praearaneus, Asoriculus cf. castellarini, Beremendia fissidens
Crocidura kornfeldi Kormos 1934 white-toothed shrew
Sorex cf. minutus Linnaeus 1766 Eurasian pygmy shrew
Sorex (Drepanosorex) cf. praearaneus Kormos 1934 long-tailed shrew
Beremendia fissidens Petényi 1864 shrew | |
Talpa sp. Linnaeus 1758 mole |