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The Antonios locality is situated in Chalkidiki Peninsula (Macedonia, Greece) about 30 km east of Thessaloniki city. Its fauna includes both micro-and macro-mammals. The suoids of the fauna include two taxa,Sanitherium schlagintweiti andBunolistriodon lockharti. The sanithere is morphologically similar to that from Pakistan, Leoben (Austria) and Chios island (Greece) and smaller than all of them.B. lockharti is also similar to that from Western Europe and different fromB. meidamon known from Turkey. The age of the Antonios fauna is estimated at the beginning of late Orleanian ELMA or at the beginning of the European mammal biozone MN 5. This age was also proposed from the earlier study of the micromammals.
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Koufos, G.D. Suoids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Early/Middle Miocene locality of Antonios, Macedonia, Greece. Senckenbergiana lethaea 87, 171–186 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03043913
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