Kilcak 3B: MN 1, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
Texasophis sp. Holman 1977
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
one caudal vertebra (EUNMH PV14151)
Reptilia - Tropidophiidae
Falseryx sp. Szyndlar and Rage 2003
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
two trunk vertebrae (EUNMH PV14145, 14148), two caudal vertebrae (EUNMH PV14150, 14152)
Reptilia - Boidae
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
two posterior trunk vertebrae (EUNMH PV14147, 14162)
Reptilia
Eoanilius cf. oligocenicus Szyndlar 1994
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
two trunk vertebrae (EUNMH PV14154, 14159)
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguinae indet. Gray 1825
Čerňanský et al. 2017 1 specimen
EUNMH PV-14021, osteoderm
Reptilia - Lacertidae
Lacertidae indet. Bonaparte 1831
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
One premaxilla (EUNMH PV 14157) and a tooth bearing bone (EUNMH PV14149)
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
three isolated teeth (EUNMH PV14143, 14158, 14165)
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Galerix saratji van den Hoek Ostende 1992
van den Hoek Ostende 1992
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmanodon ziegleri van den Hoek Ostende 1997
van den Hoek Ostende 1997
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon informal n.sp. 1
de Bruijn et al. 1993
Cricetodon aff. versteegi de Bruijn et al. 1993
de Bruijn et al. 1993
Deperetomys anatolicus de Bruijn et al. 1993
de Bruijn et al. 1993
Enginia beckerplateni de Bruijn and von Koenigswald 1994
de Bruijn and von Koenigswald 1994
Mirabella cf. anatolica de Bruijn and Saraç 1992
de Bruijn and Saraç 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey State/province:Ankara
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 33.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 31.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: MN 1
Age range of interval: 23.03 - 22.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "There is a general agreement in the attribution of these assemblages to the local biozone B that is correlated to MN 1 (de Bruijn et al. 2013)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green claystone
Secondary lithology: lignite
Lithology description: Sediments are mainly grey-green clay, rich in mollusk debris, with several thin lignite horizons.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kılçak 3b
Database number:64382
Authorizer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos, T. Cleary Enterer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos, T. Cleary
Modifier:T. Cleary Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-09-07 04:48:55 Last modified:2019-02-11 09:50:34
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-07 04:48:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18571. 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]

Secondary references:

67901 A. Čerňanský, D. Vasilyan, G. L. Georgalis, P. Jorniak, S. Mayda and J. Klembara. 2017. First record of fossil anguines (Squamata; Anguidae) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Turkey. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 110:741-751 [T. Cleary/T. Cleary]
19521 H. de Bruijn, V. Fahlbusch, G. Saraç and E. Uenay. 1993. Early Miocene faunas from the eastern Mediterranean area. Part III. The genera Deperetomys and Cricetodon with a discussion of the evolutionary history of the Cricetodontini. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 96(2):151-216 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
19513 H. de Bruijn and G. Saraç. 1992. early Miocene rodent faunas from the eastern Mediterranean area. Part II. Mirabella (Paracricetodontinae, Muroidea). Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 95(1):25-40 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
19529 H. de Bruijn and W. von Koenigswald. 1994. Early Miocene rodent faunas from the eastern Mediterranean area. Part V. The genus Enginia (Muroidea) with a discussion of the structure of the incisor enamel. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen 97(4):381-405 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
70101 E. Syromyatnikova, G. L. Georgalis, S. Mayda, T. Kaya, and G. Sarac. 2019. A new early Miocene herpetofauna from Kilcak, Turkey. Russian Journal of Herpetology 26(4):205-224 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
19944 L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 1992. Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 1: Erinaceidae. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 95(4):437-467 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
19988 L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 1997. Insectivore faunas from the Lower Miocene of Anatolia. Part 4: The genus Desmanodon (Talpidae) with the description of a new species from the Lower Miocene of Spain. Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 100(1-2):27-65 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]