Where: Manisa, Turkey (38.9° N, 28.3° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.8° N, 29.4° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; coal
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Orhan Kaya in 1999
• based on 75 kg of sediment; locality now destroyed; material is stored in the Natural History Museum of the EGE University (EUNMH ) in Izmir, Turkey
Primary reference: P. Pelaez-Campomanes, F. Göktaş, T. Kaya, P. Joniak, M. Bilgin, S. Mayda, and L. W. Hoek Ostende. 2019. Gördes: a new early Miocene micromammal assemblage from western Anatolia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 99(4):639-653 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 207048: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 17.12.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Palaeosciurus sp. Pomel 1853 squirrel | |
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Glirudinus aff. haramiensis Unay 1994 dormouse | |
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Eumyarion gordesensis n. sp. Pelaez-Campomanes et al. 2019 rodent
Deperetomys aff. intermedius de Bruijn et al. 1987 rodent
"Democricetodon cf. doukasi" = Copemys rodent | |
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Galerix uenayae van den Hoek Ostende 1992 hedgehog | |
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Turkodimylus sp. van den Hoek Ostende 1995 placental | |
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Dinosorex anatolicus van den Hoek Ostende 1995 shrew | |
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cf. Theratiskos sp. Hoek Ostende 2001 mole | |
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cf. Hanakia agadjaniani Rosina and Rummel 2012 vesper bat | |