Where: Tekirdağ, Turkey (40.9° N, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 26/27 mammal zone, Lignite-Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• radiometric age (33–32.2 Ma) of the volcanic tuff overlying the Kavakdere

•fossiliferous zone is consistent with estimated mammal zone - Cernansky et al (2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, sandy claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Unay and H. de Bruijn. 1987. Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene rodent assemblages from Turkey, a preliminary report. Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen: Reihe A Geologie und Palaontologie 10:203-210 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31605: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 19.05.2003, edited by Philip Mannion, Terri Cleary and Evangelos Vlachos

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