Kütahya (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (39.4° N, 30.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 30.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

• Kütahya provided rich micromammal assemblages, with the indicator murid species Progonomys cathalai Schaub, 1938 suggesting a correlation with the early Vallesian age and the MN 9 biochronological unit (Ünay et al. 2003; Wessels 2009; Bosma et al. 2013).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; marl and chalk

• Kütahya is localised in lake deposits with an alternation of white marls and chalks with nodules or thin lenses of organic green clay

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by EUNHM PV team in 1990

Primary reference: E. Syromyatnikova, S. Mayda, and A. Tesakov. 2022. Late Miocene amphibians and reptiles: new insight into the pre-Messinian herpetofaunas in Turkey. Historical Biology 34(10):1964-1971 [J. Head/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228010: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Grace Varnham on 16.11.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia - Discoglossidae
Latonia seyfriedi
Latonia seyfriedi von Meyer 1843 painted frog
One maxilla, EUNMH – PV-28500