Bayraktepe -Dutludere section (Miocene of Turkey)
Where: Turkey (40.1° N, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 25.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Dutludere Member (Bayraktepe Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
• Fluviatile and lagoonal environments
• yellowish-grey fossil bones collected from upper sandstone level of Dutludere section
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. Tuna. 1988. The remains of a fossil Soft-shelled Turtle (Trionyx) from the Bayraktepe area (Turkey). Zoology in the Middle East 2(1):63-67 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189953: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 21.11.2017
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |