The huge-sized deinothere Deinotherium proavum (Proboscidea, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene localities Pikermi and Halmyropotamos (Greece). (12th February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Konidaris, George E.; Roussiakis, Socrates J.; Athanassiou, Athanassios; Theodorou, George E.
• Is Part Of: Quaternary international. Volume 430(2017)Part A
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2017-02-12
• Subjects: Deinotheriidae -- Turolian -- Taxonomy -- Juvenile -- Postcranial -- Greece; AMPG Athens Museum of Palaeontology and Geology (Greece) -- SNSB-BSPG Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie (Munich, Germany) -- FSL Faculté des Sciences de Lyon (France) -- GPIH Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Hamburg (Germany) -- HGI Hungarian Geological Institute (Budapest) -- HLMD Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Germany) -- HNHM Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest) -- MGL Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Lausanne (Switzerland) -- ML Musée des Confluences, Lyon (France) -- NHMUK Natural History Museum United Kingdom (London) -- NHMW Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Austria) -- MNHN Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France) -- SU Palaeontology Museum of the Sofia University (Bulgaria); Geology, Stratigraphic -- Quaternary -- Periodicals; Stratigraphie -- Quaternaire -- Périodiques; 551.79
• DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.05.008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1040-6182

Abstract

Abstract: Presented here are the deinotheriid dental and postcranial remains from the Late Miocene localities Pikermi and Halmyropotamos (Greece). The study and comparison of the available juvenile dental material from Pikermi with other relevant specimens from Europe showed that it belongs to the huge-sized Deinotherium proavum (= D. gigantissimum ). Additionally, several postcranial specimens from Pikermi, as well as from Halmyropotamos, present deinotheriid features, which distinguish them from elephantoids, and permit their attribution also to D. proavum . This species is known from the Turolian and represents the terminal evolutionary stage of the European deinotheres. Its presence in Pikermi and Halmyropotamos is compatible with the middle Turolian (MN 12) age of the localities. Additionally, the taxonomy of European deinotheres is discussed, as well as the biostratigraphical and geographical distribution of D. proavum .