Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe
Fig 8
Stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Miocene sections from Attica and Upper Thrace.
Bio-magnetostragraphic correlation of Upper Miocene sections from Attica (Pyrgos Vassilissis[9], Chomateri A and B, Pikermi Valley 1 and 3, Rafina) and Upper Thrace (Azmaka) and astronomical tuning of the Pikermi Formation to insolation seasonality at 40°N (I40°N 21June−I40°N 21Dec of the astronomical solution La04[28]). The orbitally tuned dominant (d) and faint (f) debris flows and fluvial channels are indicated. Black stars represent Graecopithecus-levels, dashes (small dots) indicate palaeomagnetic (palaeobotanic) sampling horizons and numbered stars denote horizons of fossil excavations within the Pikermi Formation undertaken by major museums or collections (1 and 2 represent the classical Pikermi levels), 1 –Gaudry 1855 (partim), 1860 (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Abel and Skoufos 1912 (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, University of Athens), 2 –Gaudry 1855, Woodward and Skoufos 1901 (British Museum of Natural History, London, University of Athens), 3 –Theodorou 2009 ff. (University of Athens), 4 –Symeonidis & Bachmayer 1972–1978 (University of Athens, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), 5 –Symeonidis & Bachmayer 1979–1980 (University of Athens, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien), 6 –v. Freyberg, Paraskevaidis 1944 ff. (University of Erlangen, University of Athens).