Also known as GER

Where: Macedonia, Greece (40.7° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 23.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Gerakarou Formation (Premygdonian Group), Villanyian to Villanyian (3.2 - 0.0 Ma)

• Late Villanyian, MNQ18, Late Villafranchian, Plio-Pleistocene. In the Upper levels of the Gerakarou formation.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red, silty, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Site excavated by Koufos and collaborators. Material held in the Department of Geology and Physical Geography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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 34617: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 12.09.2003