Harami 5 (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (38.4° N, 31.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 32.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Harmanyazi Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• above main lignite bed and stratigraphically above Harami 4; formation listed in diagram as Ilgin (Harmanyazi)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

• clay layer underneath a limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: sieve

• from approx.500 kg of sediment

Primary reference: P. Joniak, P. Paláez-Campomanes, S. Mayda, M. Bilgin, K. Halaçar and L. W. Hoek Ostende. 2019. New faunas of small mammals from old Harami Mine (early Miocene, Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 99:673-700 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208575: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 04.04.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Galerix saratji
Galerix saratji van den Hoek Ostende 1992 hedgehog
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glirudinus cf. matusi
Glirudinus cf. matusi Joniak et al. 2017 dormouse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Steneofiber eseri
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon anatolicus, Democricetodon cf. doukasi, Eumyarion carbonicus, Eumyarion microps