Gözükizilli-2 (Oligocene of Turkey)

Also known as GK-2, Gözükizilli

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (40.0° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 31.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Kizilirmak Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Lower Member of Kizilirmak Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray conglomerate

• grey fluvial conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the Maden Tektik ve Arama in Ankara in 2002; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: P.-O. Antoine, L. Karadenizli, and G. Saraç. 2008. A giant rhinocerotoid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Late Oligocene of north-central Anatolia (Turkey). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:581-592 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182500: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Protaceratherium cf. albigense
Protaceratherium cf. albigense Roman 1912 rhinoceros
MTA GK-2-1
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Paraceratherium sp.
Paraceratherium sp. Forster Cooper 1911 odd-toed ungulate
MTA GK-2-2
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomerycidae indet.
Lophiomerycidae indet. Janis 1987 ruminant
GK2-3 and 7
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Iberomeryx parvus
Iberomeryx parvus Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
GK2-4, 5, 10, 11