800 m north of the crossroads of Tuzluca, Kars and Erzurum (Miocene to of Turkey)

Also known as Right bank of road to Kars

Where: Anatolia, Turkey (40.1° N, 43.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 41.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cincevat Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; claystone

• clays, rich in montmorillonite

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 2010

Primary reference: S. Sen, P.-O. Antoine, B. Varol, T. Ayyildiz, and K. Sözeri. 2011. Giant rhinoceros Paraceratherium and other vertebrates from Oligocene and middle Miocene deposits of the Kağızman-Tuzluca Basin, Eastern Turkey. Naturwissenschaften 98:407-423 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183980: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Tribosphenida - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet.
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
Tuz-7-9
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetodon cf. meini, Vallaris sp.
Cricetodon cf. meini Freudenthal 1963 rodent
Tuz-10-12
Vallaris sp. Wessels et al. 2001 rodent
Tuz-13
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail