The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: overview of the evidence

E Panagopoulou, V Tourloukis, N Thompson… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Marathousa 1 is a Lower Palaeolithic open-air site located in the Megalopolis
basin, an area in Southern Greece known for its fossiliferous sediments. Mining activities in …

Marathousa 2: A New Middle Pleistocene Locality in the Megalopolis Basin (Greece) with evidence of hominin exploitation of megafauna (Hippopotamus)

G Konidaris, V Tourloukis, G Boni… - …, 2023 - paleoanthropology.org
In this article we present the new open-air Middle Pleistocene locality Marathousa 2, which
was discovered during a double intensive and targeted field survey in the lignite mines of …

First authentic record of the freshwater turtle Mauremys from the upper Pliocene of Italy, with a new occurrence of the rarely reported ichnotaxon Thatchtelithichnus …

A Collareta, S Casati, MAL Zuffi, A Di Cencio - Carnets de Geologie, 2020 - arpi.unipi.it
Nowadays, the living species of the terrapin genus Mauremys (Testudinoidea: Geoemydi-
dae) are mostly found in eastern Asia, but three of them inhabit the Western Palearctic …

Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparíssia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes

A Athanassiou, D Michailidis, E Vlachos… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The mining activities in the Middle Pleistocene lacustrine basin of Megalopolis
(Peloponnesus, Greece) have exposed expanded sections of lacustrine sediments. In …

New diverse amphibian and reptile assemblages from the late Neogene of northern Greece provide novel insights into the emergence of extant herpetofaunas of the …

GL Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, M Delfino - Swiss Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
We here describe abundant new fossil material of amphibians and reptiles from different late
Neogene localities of northern Greece: the Early Pliocene (MN 14) of Spilia 0, Spilia 1, and …

Freshwater turtle or tortoise? The exploitation of testudines at the Mousterian site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Hula Valley, Israel

R Biton, G Sharon, M Oron, T Steiner… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Numerous sites showing human occupation during the Pleistocene were discovered at the
Hula Valley—in the northern segment of the Jordan Valley, Israel. At the Middle Paleolithic …

The latest Early Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Kaiafas (Greece) and the first record of fossil Ophiomorus (Squamata, Scincidae)

A Villa, GL Georgalis, M Delfino - Geobios, 2020 - Elsevier
Together with the rest of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece acted as a refuge for thermophilic
amphibians and reptiles during the Quaternary Glaciations. In this work we provide new …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and …

GE Konidaris, A Athanassiou, V Tourloukis… - Quaternary, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent investigations in the upper Lower–Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis
Basin (Greece) led to the discovery of several sites/findspots with abundant faunal material …

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 …