Bağdatlı (Oligocene of Turkey)

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (40.2° N, 34.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 31.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Kizilirmak Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; massive, red mudstone

• Reddish massive mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2002

Primary reference: G. Métais, E. Albayrak, P.-O. Antoine, O. Erdal, L. Karadenizli, N. Oyal, G. Saraç, Y. Büyükmeriç, and S. Sen. 2016. Oligocene ruminants from the Kızılırmak Formation, Çankırı-Çorum Basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Palaeontologia Electronica 19(3):37A:1-23 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182743: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Iberomeryx parvus Gabunia 1964 chevrotain
BA-10
 Artiodactyla - Lophiomerycidae
Lophiomerycidae indet. Janis 1987 ruminant
BA-3
 Placentalia -
Pecora indet. ruminant
BA-5
 Artiodactyla -
Dremotherium guthi Jehenne 1987 ruminant
BA-3 and 6