Akkasdagi: MN 12, Turkey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
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Tubulidentata indet.
Huxley 1872
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Choerolophodon sp.
Schlesinger 1917
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Adcrocuta cf. eximia
Roth and Wagner 1854
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Hyaenotherium wongi
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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"hipparions": reported by earlier workers as Hipparion gracile | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Chilotherium sp.
Ringström 1924
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Antoine and Saraç 2005 | |||||||||
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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"rhinoceros" | ||||||||||
= Ceratotherium neumayri
Osborn 1900
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Antoine and Saraç 2005 | |||||||||
Stephanorhinus pikermiensis
(Toula 1906)
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Antoine and Saraç 2005 | |||||||||
Acerorhinus sp.
Kretzoi 1942
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Antoine and Saraç 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Microstonyx major
(Gervais 1848)
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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or: cf. Palaeotragus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Protoryx sp.
Forsyth Major 1891
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Tragoportax sp.
Pilgrim 1937
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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"gazelle" compared to G. pilgrimi, G. capricornis, and G. deperdita | ||||||||||
Prostrepsiceros sp.
Forsyth Major 1891
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Schizogalerix atticus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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cf. Occitanomys provocator
de Bruijn 1976
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Byzantinia sp.
de Bruijn 1976
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Byzantinia cf. hellenicus
(Freudenthal 1970)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Spalacidae
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Spalacidae indet.
Gray 1821
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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% 800 | N. 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] |