The fossil record of rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Rhinocerotidae) in Greece

IX Giaourtsakis - Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2: Laurasiatherians …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The rhinocerotids (Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae) represent a herbivorous
perissodactyl family that includes the extant rhinoceroses and their phylogenetically related …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Plakias, Crete: a glimpse into the earliest late Miocene herpetofaunas of southeastern Europe

GL Georgalis, A Villa, E Vlachos, M Delfino - Geobios, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the earliest late Miocene (early Tortonian, MN 9) of
Plakias (Crete, Greece) are described in this paper. Most of the material is fragmentary …

Expansion after expansion: dissecting the phylogeography of the widely distributed spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca (Testudines: Testudinidae)

EVA Graciá, M Vargas-Ramírez… - Biological Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Studying phylogeographic histories in wide-ranging species provides key insights into those
processes shaping current species' distributions and genetic structuring. In this work, we …

The diverse fossil chelonians from Milia (late Pliocene, Grevena, Greece) with a new species of Testudo Linnaeus, 1758 (Testudines: Testudinidae)

E Vlachos, E Tsoukala - Papers in Palaeontology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The late P liocene (early V illafranchian, MN 16a) locality of M ilia (G revena, G reece) has
yielded numerous remains of mammals, such as zygodons, mastodons, rhinocerotids …

The Pikermian tortoises (Testudines, Testudinidae) from the late Miocene of the South Balkans

E Vlachos, GL Georgalis, S Roussiakis… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article deals with the fossil tortoises of one of the most iconic fossil localities of the
Neogene of the Old World, the upper Miocene locality of Pikermi, near Athens, Greece. We …

Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions

E Vlachos, A Pérez-García, S Roussiakis… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The world-famous upper Miocene fossil localities on the Aegean island of Samos in Greece
have produced a rich fossil record that sheds light on the evolution of eastern Mediterranean …

Proboscideans from the upper Miocene localities of Thermopigi, Neokaisareia and Platania (Northern Greece)

GE Konidaris, E Tsoukala - Annales de Paléontologie, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present article, we study the proboscidean remains from three upper Miocene
localities of Northern Greece: Thermopigi (Serres), Neokaisareia (Pieria) and Platania …

[PDF][PDF] LATE MIOCENE TURTLES OF GRYTSIV (WESTERN UKRAINE) WITH RODENT GNAW MARKS ON THE CARAPACE SURFACE.

V Yanenko, О Kovalchuk - Zoodiversity, 2023 - researchgate.net
Late Miocene Turtles of Grytsiv (western Ukraine) with Rodent Gnaw Marks on the Carapace
Surface. Yanenko, V. & Kovalchuk, О.—The paper describes a series of turtle remains from …

[PDF][PDF] Rhinocerotidae from the late Miocene and late Pliocene of Macedonia, Greece. A revision of the Neogene-Quaternary Rhinocerotidae of Greece

E Tsoukala - Rev Paléobiol, 2018 - institutions.ville-geneve.ch
Rhino fossils have been found in 65 localities in Greece, spanning the biozones MN 5 to
MNQ 26. Some specimens represent the first occurrence of their species in Greece (such as …

A new species of Mauremys (Testudines, Geoemydidae) from the late Miocene – Pliocene of Central Macedonia (northern Greece) with exceptionally wide vertebral …

E Vlachos, J Sterli, K Vasileiadou… - Papers in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge of Neogene chelonian diversity in northern Greece is increased with the
present description of a new species of Mauremys (Testudines, Geoemydidae) from the late …