Avdan (Miocene of Turkey)

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

• Clayey, micritic, clastic limestone, 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
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon turicensis Schintz 1824 mastodon