BOY-2, Boyabat (Oligocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (41.5° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 31.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cemalettin Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Upper middle part of the Cemalettin Formation; early Rupelian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; mudstone

• meandering river paleochannel belt

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. J. Sanders, W. Nemec, M. Aldinucci, N. E. Janbu, and M. Ghinassi. 2014. Latest evidence of Palaeoamasia (Mammalia, Embrithopoda) in Turkish Anatolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5):1155-1164 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182499: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 03.11.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae
Palaeoamasia "n. sp."
Palaeoamasia "n. sp." Ozansoy 1966 placental
BOY-2