Where: Tekirdağ, Turkey (41.0° N, 26.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 24.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MP 25 mammal zone, Lignite-Sandstone Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "association of two rodents, a rather large-sized Suevosciurus ehingensis and

•Edirnella, is indicative of MP 25" - Cernansky et al (2017)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray, green 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 31606: 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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