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Perdikkas Palaeontological Museum
The Palaeontological Museum of Perdikkas is a museum in the village of Perdikkas, near Ptolemaida, Greece. It is also known as the Anthropological and Paleontological Museum of Ptolemais. ''Archidiskodon meridionalis'' In 1977, Isaak Pandelidis, the owner of a sandpit not far from the village of Perdikkas, Greece, chanced upon the remains of a large animal. He informed the Anthropological Society of Greece, and the excavations directed by the anthropologist Aris Poulianos brought to light the skeleton of a mammoth ('' Archidiskodon meridionalis'') approximately 3,000,000 years old. It is the oldest animal skeleton ever discovered on the continent of Europe.Museums of Macedonia Though the entire skeleton was found, the bones were not in their proper place, evidently because the beast had been killed here by hunters, who had then dismembered it in order to eat it. The mammoth must have been 5 m long and 4 m tall. All that is missing is the tusks, which must ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdikkas, Kozani
Perdikkas ( el, Περδίκκας) is a village and a community of the Eordaia municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Ptolemaida, of which it was a municipal district. The 2021 census recorded 1,372 inhabitants in the village. The Perdikkas Palaeontological Museum is situated near the village. References Populated places in Kozani (regional unit) Eordaia {{WMacedonia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archidiskodon Meridionalis
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus'', one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (from around 5 million years ago) into the Holocene at about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. They were members of the family Elephantidae, which also contains the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors. Mammoths are more closely related to living Asian elephants than African elephants. The oldest representative of ''Mammuthus'', the South African mammoth (''M. subplanifrons''), appeared around 5 million years ago during the early Pliocene in what is now southern and eastern Africa. Descendant species of these mammoths moved north and continued to propagate into numerous subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
