Kizilirmak type locality (Oligocene of Turkey)

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (40.3° N, 34.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 31.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2002

Primary reference: P.-O. Antoine, L. Karadenizli, and G. SaraƧ. 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 182503: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomerycidae indet. Janis 1987 ruminant
KZ-8 and 10
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Tragulidae "sp. 1" Milnes-Edwards 1864 chevrotain
Iberomeryx sp. Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
KZ-1-3 and 11
Iberomeryx parvus Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
 Placentalia -
Pecora indet. ruminant
KZ-9
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Placentalia -
Carnivora "sp. 1" Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
Carnivora "sp. 2" Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885 placental
 Rodentia -