NEW NEOGENE MOLLUSCAN AND MAMMALIAN SITES FROM THRACE, GREECE

Authors
SYRIDES GE KOLIADIMOU KK KOUFOS GD
Citation
Ge. Syrides et al., NEW NEOGENE MOLLUSCAN AND MAMMALIAN SITES FROM THRACE, GREECE, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 324(5), 1997, pp. 427-433
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
324
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
427 - 433
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1997)324:5<427:NNMAMS>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
The investigations in the Xanthi-Komotini Basin (Thrace, northern Gree ce) have provided useful data about the stratigraphy and biochronology of the Neogene/Quaternary deposits. A ''lower group'' and an ''upper group'' of sediments were distinguished Three new localities with moll usc fauna have been found. Their faunal composition and similarities s uggest euxinic (eastern Paratethyan) origin and latest Miocene age for the higher part of the lower group. The mollusc fauna deposits are ov erlain by terrestrial deposits of upper most part of ''lower group'' i ncluding a new mammalian fauna. Preliminary determination of the mater ial and comparison with other eastern Mediterranean faunas suggest ear ly Ruscinian (MN 14) age.