Also known as Yukari-Sogutonu, Yukari-Sögütönü

Where: Turkey (39.8° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 30.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Lower Pleistocene, Middle Villafranchian (based on fauna).

•Neogene limnic basin fill, then disconformably above this are 5+ m of fluvial sands and light gravels, overlain by several meters of lower energy fluvial silts and gravels.

Environment/lithology:

Collection methods: Specimens kept at MTA, Ankara.

Primary reference: J.-D. Becker-Platen and O. Sickenberg. 1968. Die unterpleistozaenen Kiese von Eskisehir (Anatolien) und ihre Saugertierfauna. Mitteilungen des Geologischen Instituts der Technischen Hochschule in Hannover 8:7-20 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39321: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 26.05.2004

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