Harami locality (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Turkey (40.8° N, 37.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 38.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• collected from a clay lens directly overlying a 12 m thick lignite deposit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lignite and claystone

• collected from a clay lens directly overlying a 12 m thick lignite deposit.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Unay and H. de Bruijn. 1987. Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene rodent assemblages from Turkey, a preliminary report. Munchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen: Reihe A Geologie und Palaontologie 10:203-210 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31601: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 19.05.2003

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Paleosciurus sp.
Paleosciurus sp.
1M1-2, 1p4, similar to P. goti and P. costatus but somewhat larger
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet.
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
number of complete M1+M2, 1 genus and sp.
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Gliridae indet.
Gliridae indet. Muirhead 1819 dormouse
number of complete M1+M2, 2 genera and sp.
 Rodentia -
Muroidea indet.
Muroidea indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
number of complete M1+M2, 1 genus and sp.
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumyarion spp., Eucricetodontinae indet., "Mirabella intermedia" = Deperetomys intermedius
Eumyarion spp. Thaler 1966 mouse
4 species
Eucricetodontinae indet. Mein and Freudenthal 1971 mouse
number of complete M1+M2, 2 genera and 5 spp.
"Mirabella intermedia" = Deperetomys intermedius de Bruijn et al. 1987 mouse