A NEW EARLY MIDDLE MIOCENE MAMMAL LOCALITY FROM MACEDONIA, GREECE/

A new fossiliferous locality with macro-and micro-mammals was found ne ar the village of Agios Antonios, about 26 km southeast of Thessalonik i, Macedonia, Greece. The fossils are recovered from the fissure filli ngs of the karstified Mesozoic limestones of the basement. The fissure s were filled in and covered by the elastic sediments of Antonios Fm, representing the first Neogene deposits of the palaeobasin. The age of the fauna indicates a time span from the end of the Early Miocene to the beginning of the Middle Miocene (upper part of MN 4 to lower part of MN 5). The deposition of Antonios Fm must have started during or a little earlier than the end of the Early Miocene, and consequently the Neogene Axios-Thermaikos palaeobasin was created during this lime or a little earlier.