Achmet Aga (Miocene of Greece)

Also known as Prokopi, Prokopion

Where: Euboea, Greece (38.7° N, 23.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.8° N, 24.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; red marl

• The torrent was cut through a thick deposit of red, indurated marl, much like that of Pikermi; and bones are noticeable in the section at many points.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMPG

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1901. On the bone-beds of Pikermi, Attica and on similar deposits in Northern Euboea. Geological Magazine 4:481-486 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214079: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 15.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Ictitherium sp.
Ictitherium sp. Wagner 1848 hyaena
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella brevicornis
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Samotherium sp.
Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888 giraffe
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sp.
Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758 one-horned rhinoceros
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp.
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark