Where: Manisa, Turkey (38.6° N, 27.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 27.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Soma Formation, MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• lower part of MN 3 (local zone C/D)

•The whole fauna was collected from the uppermost mud rock interval of the Soma Formation while the macromammals were collected from the 50-cm thick fine-grained, sub-mature conglomerate lenses and from the marly upper part (Mayda, 2010).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained conglomerate and shelly/skeletal marl

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 2001

Primary reference: H. de Bruijn, S. Mayda, L. Hoek Ostende, T. Kaya, and G. Saraç. 2006. Small mammals from the Early Miocene of Sabuncubeli (Manisa, S.W. Anatolia, Turkey). Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30:57-87 [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 69303: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 24.02.2007, edited by Terri Cleary and Grace Varnham

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