Proboscideans from the upper Miocene localities of Thermopigi,Neokaisareia and Platania (Northern Greece) |
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| Institution: | 1. Palaeoanthropology, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Rümelinstr. 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany;2. Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology, Department of Geology, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;1. Chongqing Laboratory of Geoheritage Protection and Research, No. 208 Hydrogeological and Engineering Geological Team, Chongqing Bureau of Geological and Mineral Resource Exploration and Development, 400700 Chongqing, China;2. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Science, 100044 Beijing, China;3. CNRS (UMR 8538), Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, 24, rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France;4. Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Kantarawichai, 44150 Maha Sarakham, Thailand;5. Chongqing Institute of Geological Survey, 401122 Chongqing, China;1. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Minist. Culture, UMR 7269 Lampea, MMSH, 13094 Aix-en-Provence cedex 2, France;2. PACEA-UMR5199 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bât. B2, Allée Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, CS50023, 33615 Pessac cedex, France;3. Muséum Requien, 67, rue Joseph-Vernet, 84000 Avignon, France;1. Museo Paleontológico de Alpuente, Av. San Blas 17, 46178 Alpuente, Valencia, Spain;2. Museu Valencia d’Història Natural, L’Hort de Feliu, P.O. Box 8460, 46018 Alginet, Valencia, Spain;3. Departament de Geologia, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain;4. INCYT-UPSE, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, 7047 Santa Elena, Ecuador;1. UMR 8167 « Orient et Méditerranée », Paris Sorbonne universités, 27, rue Paul–Bert, 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine cedex, France;2. CP55, archéozoologie, archéobotanique (UMR 7209), CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Paris Sorbonne universités, 55, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France;3. Department of the paleolithic, National Museum of Iran, 30, Tir street Imam avenue, Tehran, Iran;4. Department of archaeology and history, university of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran;1. UMR CNRS/UM/IRD/EPHE, Institut des sciences de l’évolution de Montpellier, 2, place Eugène-Bataillon, cc64, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France;2. Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, 31, Naphralan road, Phranakorn, Bangkok, Thailand;3. Northeastern Research Institute of Petrified Wood and Mineral Resources, Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Mueang, 30000 Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand;4. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, 10, Kahlaische Strabe, 07745 Jena, Germany;5. UMR CNRS 7207, centre de recherche en paléontologie Paris, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 8, rue Buffon, CP 38, 75005 Paris, France;6. Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Kantarawichai, 44150 Maha Sarakham, Thailand |
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| Abstract: | In the present article, we study the proboscidean remains from three upper Miocene localities of Northern Greece: Thermopigi (Serres), Neokaisareia (Pieria) and Platania (Drama). The material from the Turolian locality of Thermopigi includes only postcranial specimens. The morphological features of the scapula indicate the presence of the deinotheriid Deinotherium sp., whereas the rest of the specimens are morphologically distinct from Deinotherium and can be referred to Elephantimorpha indet. The material from Neokaisareia consists of a partial skeleton of a single individual and is attributed to the mammutid Mammut sp. (M. obliquelophus?). This taxon is known in Greece from the early–middle Turolian. The Platania proboscidean belongs to the tetralophodont amebelodontid Konobelodon cf. atticus. The genus Konobelodon was already present during the Vallesian of the wider area, but the lower tusk of the Platania shovel-tusker presents some morphological and metrical differences from the Vallesian representative, yet it has also smaller dimensions in its deciduous dentition than the morphologically similar Turolian specimens. The type locality of K. atticus is Pikermi (Attica, Greece), correlated to the middle Turolian, but the known biostratigraphic range of this species covers the entire Turolian. Platania is possibly correlated close to the Vallesian/Turolian boundary and the possible record of this species could document one of its earliest occurrences. |
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| Keywords: | Proboscidea Late Miocene Turolian Proboscidea Miocène supérieur Turolien |
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