TU19 (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.4° N, 34.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 33.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: local zone I zone, Tuğlu Formation, MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)

• Çankırı Basin

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "a succession of clays, silty and sandy clays, with patchy sand bodies"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Hans de Bruijn, Peter Joniak in 1990s, 2008–2011

• Collections in Natural History Museum of the MTA, Ankara, Turkey; and Department of Geology and Paleontology of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Primary reference: P. Joniak and H. De Bruijn. 2015. Rodents from the Upper Miocene Tuğlu Formation (Çankırı Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 89(4):1039-1056 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176198: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 31.01.2016

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Taxonomic list

• Only rodents have been fully published.
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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilinus cf. besana
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Megacricetodon cf. yenicekentensis, Byzantinia sp., Byzantinia bayraktepensis, Myocricetodon cf. eskihisarensis
Byzantinia sp. de Bruijn 1976 mouse
Byzantinia bayraktepensis Unay 1980 mouse
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Microdyromys cf. complicatus, Myoglis cf. ucrainicus, Muscardinus aff. thaleri, Myomimus dehmi
Microdyromys cf. complicatus De Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Muscardinus aff. thaleri De Bruijn 1966 dormouse
Myomimus dehmi de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Keramidomys sp.
Keramidomys sp. Hartenberger 1966 rodent