Gözükizilli-3 (Oligocene of Turkey)

Also known as GK-3, 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: G. Métais, E. Albayrak, P.-O. Antoine, O. Erdal, L. Karadenizli, N. Oyal, G. Saraç, Y. Büyükmeriç, and S. Sen. 2016. Oligocene ruminants from the Kızılırmak Formation, Çankırı-Çorum Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(3):37A:1-23 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182742: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Iberomeryx sp. Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
GK3-18, 35 and 47
Iberomeryx parvus Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
GK3 specimens