Gözükizilli-1 (Oligocene of Turkey)

Also known as GK-1, 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: lacustrine; gray claystone

• grey clays

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 182501: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eucricetodon "sp. 2", Eucricetodon "sp. 3"
Eucricetodon "sp. 2" Thaler 1966 rodent
Eucricetodon "sp. 3" Thaler 1966 rodent
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Ctenodactylidae "gen. B. sp. 1", aff. Sayimys sp.
aff. Sayimys sp. Wood 1937 gundi
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Glirulus sp., Bransatoglis cf. complicatus
Glirulus sp. Thomas 1906 Japanese dormouse
Bransatoglis cf. complicatus Unay 1994 dormouse
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Dipodidae indet.
Dipodidae indet. Waterhouse 1842 rodent