Candir: MN 5 - MN 6, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Schizogalerix cf. anatolica Engesser 1980
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae informal indet. I Fischer 1814
Soricidae informal indet. II Fischer 1814
Mammalia - Talpidae
Desmanodon minor Engesser 1980
van den Hoek Ostende 1997
Mammalia
Schizochoerus anatoliensis n. sp. van der Made 1997
van der Made 1997
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Cheirogaster cf. bolivari (Hernandez-Pacheco 1917)
Staesche et al. 2007
    = Titanochelon sp. Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014
Pérez-García and Vlachos 2014
    = Titanochelon kayadibiensis Karl et al. 2021
Karl et al. 2021
Testudo cf. graeca Linnaeus 1758
Staesche et al. 2007
    = Testudo marmorum Gaudry 1862
Karl et al. 2021
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys cf. caspica (Gmelin 1774)
Staesche et al. 2007
    = Mauremys aristotelica Vlachos et al. 2019
Karl et al. 2021
Reptilia
? Blanus sp. Wagler 1830
Syromyatnikova et al. 2021
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguinae indet. Gray 1825
Čerňanský et al. 2017 3 specimens
UU CD 5102, 5103, and 5104, osteoderms
Ophisaurus sp. Daudin 1803
Čerňanský et al. 2017 1 specimen
UU CD 5101, dorsal vertebra
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey State/province:Ankara
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 33.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.8° North, 32.5° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:MN 5 - MN 6
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 12.75000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "The correlation of the Candir assemblages to an appropriate MN zonation is complicated. Candir was initially biostratigraphically correlated to MN 6 (de Bruijn et al. 1992) and was subsequently reassigned to the MN5 (de Bruijn et al. 2003). As such, the age of Candir is still under debate and is thus dated either as MN5 or MN6 (Casanovas-Vilar et al. 2011; Mayda et al. 2015). Using both biochronological correlations MN 5 and MN 6, the magnetostratigraphic studies (Krijgsman 2003) correlated Candir to the base of the chron C5ACn, 14 Ma and C5ABn, 13.6 Ma respectively. In any case, the overall faunal resemblance between Pasalar and Candir allows a confident correlation of Candir with the local zone F (de Bruijn et al. 2013)." - Cernansky et al (2017)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green silty claystone
Lithology description: These localities are represented by several fossiliferous horizons of green-grey silty clays and paleosols, located near Candir
Environment:terrestrial 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:Çandır; Çandir
Database number:68561
Authorizer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos, T. Cleary, J. Head Enterer:L. van den Hoek Ostende, E. Vlachos, T. Cleary, G. Varnham
Modifier:T. Cleary Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-01-27 01:52:23 Last modified:2019-02-11 10:09:09
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-27 01:52:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19450. B. Engesser. 1980. Insectivora und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Neogen der Türkei. Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen 102:46-149 [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]
74972 H. V. Karl, U. Staesche, and A. Safi. 2021. New findings of neogene tortoises Titanochelon kayadibiensis sp. nov. and Protestudo bessarabica (Riabinin, 1918) (Testudinidae) from the Miocene of western Turkey, with a review of fossil turtles of Turkey. SPC Journal of Environmental Sciences 3(1):1-9 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
60876 A. Pérez-García and E. Vlachos. 2014. New generic proposal for the European Neogene large testudinids (Cryptodira) and the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the medium and large representatives of the European Cenozoic record. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172:653-719 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
61765 K. Staesche, H.V. Karl, and U. Staesche. 2007. Fossile Schildkroten aus der Turkei. In U. Staesche (ed.), Fossile Schildkroten aus drei Kontinenten 98:91-149 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
85196 E. V. Syromyatnikova, E. S. Kovalenko, and A. A. Kovalenko. 2021. A fossil record of the Eastern clade of Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) from the late Miocene of Ukraine . Geobios 69:69-75 [J. Head/G. Varnham]
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]
25053 J. van der Made. 1997. Systematics and stratigraphy of the genera Taucanamo and Schizochoerus and the classification of the Palaeochoeridae (Suoidea, Mammalia). Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 100(1-2):127-139 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]