Also known as KTBA 1001
Where: Turkey (37.6° N, 28.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 28.8° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: MN6 mammal zone, Yatagan Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Avdan locality (MN6) of the Kale-Tavas basin (Denizli Turkey).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; argillaceous, carbonaceous lime mudstone and lignite
Size class: macrofossils
• Mandible fragment
Primary reference: H. Erten and D.B. Koralay. 2020. A Zygolophodon turicensis (Proboscidea, Mammalia) mandible fragment from the Kale-Tavas basin (Denizli, Turkey). Springer Nature [M. Uhen/A. Glass/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 214688: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Abigail Glass on 12.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon |