Where: Turkey (40.4° N, 34.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 33.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: local zone I zone, Tuğlu Formation, MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)
• Çankırı Basin
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Hans de Bruijn, Peter Joniak in 1990s, 2008–2011
• Collections in Natural History Museum of the MTA, Ankara, Turkey; and Department of Geology and Paleontology of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Primary reference: P. Joniak and H. De Bruijn. 2015. Rodents from the Upper Miocene Tuğlu Formation (Çankırı Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89(4):1039-1056 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176197: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 31.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Progonomys cathalai Schaub 1938 mouse | |
Byzantinia bayraktepensis Unay 1980 mouse | |
Myomimus dehmi de Bruijn 1966 dormouse |