PBDB Collection

Keseköy (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Ankara, Turkey (40.5° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 31.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• attributed to the local zone D, being correlated to MN 3

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown, green claystone and coal

• "The section predominantly consists of green–brown, partly laminated clays, intercalated with several coal layers." - Cernansky et al (2017)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 1995. Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 2: Dinosorex (Heterosoricidae). Proceedings Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 98(1):1-18 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64373: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 07.09.2006, edited by Terri Cleary

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Soricomorpha - Talpidae	Desmanodon burkarti n. sp.⁶ Desmanodon burkarti n. sp.⁶ van den Hoek Ostende 1997 mole
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Dinosorex anatolicus n. sp. Dinosorex anatolicus n. sp. van den Hoek Ostende 1995 shrew
Tribosphenida - Erinaceoidae	Turkodimylus sondaari n. sp.⁵ Turkodimylus sondaari n. sp.⁵ van den Hoek Ostende 1995 placental
Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae	Galerix uenayae n. sp.⁴ Galerix uenayae n. sp.⁴ van den Hoek Ostende 1992 hedgehog
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Cricetodon kasapligili n. sp.², Enginia djanpolati n. sp.³, Enginia gertcheki n. sp.³ Cricetodon kasapligili n. sp.² de Bruijn et al. 1993 rodent Enginia djanpolati n. sp.³ de Bruijn and von Koenigswald 1994 rodent Enginia gertcheki n. sp.³ de Bruijn and von Koenigswald 1994 rodent
Reptilia
Squamata - Anguidae	Anguinae indet.¹, Ophisaurus sp.¹ Anguinae indet.¹ Gray 1825 squamates UU KE 5102, caudal vertebra; UU KE 5103, osteoderm Ophisaurus sp.¹ Daudin 1803 glass lizard UU KE 5101, dorsal vertebra

¹Čerňanský et al. 2017; ²de Bruijn et al. 1993; ³de Bruijn and von Koenigswald 1994; ⁴van den Hoek Ostende 1992; ⁵van den Hoek Ostende 1995; ⁶van den Hoek Ostende 1997