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The Fossil Record of Anthracotheres (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) in Greece

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Though widely distributed in Europe since the late Eocene and quite abundant since Oligocene to early Miocene, anthracotheres have a very restricted Greek record due mostly to the limited exposure of similar-aged lithostratigraphic formations. Two bothriodontine genera are known so far from coal deposits of three localities in Western (Greek) Thrace, Katerini Basin, and Euboea Island. All of them lack, however, associated fauna and precise stratigraphic context.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to S. Roussiakis for providing photographs of the Kalimeriani mandible and to F. Lihoreau for fruitful comments and suggestions.

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Kostopoulos, D.S. (2022). The Fossil Record of Anthracotheres (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Hippopotamoidea) in Greece. In: Vlachos, E. (eds) Fossil Vertebrates of Greece Vol. 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68442-6_8

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