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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Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Mammalia | |
Desmanodon cf. burkarti van den Hoek Ostende 1997 mole | |
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Galerix uenayae, Schizogalerix evae n. sp.
Galerix uenayae van den Hoek Ostende 1992 hedgehog
Schizogalerix evae n. sp. de Bruijn et al. 2006 hedgehog | |
Ochotonidae indet. Thomas 1897 pika | |
Mirabella sp., Democricetodon doukasi, Cricetodon aff. kasapligili, Vallaris zappai, Eumyarion montanus, Eumyarion intercentralis, Eumyarion orhani n. sp.
Democricetodon doukasi mouse
Cricetodon aff. kasapligili de Bruijn et al. 1993 mouse
Vallaris zappai mouse
Eumyarion montanus mouse
Eumyarion intercentralis mouse
Eumyarion orhani n. sp. de Bruijn et al. 2006 mouse | |
Debruijnia arpati blind mole | |
Glis galitopouli Van der Meulen and de Bruijn 1982 dormouse
Glirudinus aff. engesseri Unay 1994 dormouse | |
Palaeosciurus fissurae squirrel | |
Steneofiber eseri beaver |