Akkasdagi: MN 12, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tubulidentata
Tubulidentata indet. Huxley 1872
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta cf. eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Hyaenotherium wongi
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
"hipparions": reported by earlier workers as Hipparion gracile
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924
Antoine and Saraç 2005
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
"rhinoceros"
    = Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn 1900
Antoine and Saraç 2005
Stephanorhinus pikermiensis (Toula 1906)
Antoine and Saraç 2005
Acerorhinus sp. Kretzoi 1942
Antoine and Saraç 2005
Mammalia - Suidae
Microstonyx major (Gervais 1848)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821
or: cf. Palaeotragus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Protoryx sp. Forsyth Major 1891
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
"gazelle" compared to G. pilgrimi, G. capricornis, and G. deperdita
Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Schizogalerix atticus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
cf. Occitanomys provocator de Bruijn 1976
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Byzantinia sp. de Bruijn 1976
Byzantinia cf. hellenicus (Freudenthal 1970)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
Spalacidae indet. Gray 1821
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey State/province:Anatolia
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 33.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 33.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:950 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:MN 12
Age range of interval:7.75000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kizilirmak
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late Miocene, Middle Turolian, MN 12
the Akkasdagi tuff is Ar/Ar dated at 7.1 +/- 0.1 (Antoine and Saraç 2005)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:white tuff
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: pinkish white tuffs
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: The tuffs were settled as pyroclastic flow
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collection method comments: apparently only describes new collections; previously collected material is in the Natural History Museum of Paris.
Metadata
Database number:60534
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:S. Kuemmell, J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-05-17 05:34:43 Last modified:2008-01-25 15:35:50
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-17 05:34:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17400.5% 800N. Kazanci, S. Sen, G. Seyitoglu, L. Bonis, G. Bouvrain, H. Araz, B. Varol and L. Karadenizli. 1999. Geology of a new Late Miocene mammal locality in central Anatolia, Turkey. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 329(7):503-510 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

26323 P.-O. Antoine and G. Saraç. 2005. Rhinocerotidae from the late Miocene of Akkasdagi, Turkey. Geodiversitas 27(4):601-632 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]