Kayadibi (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Konya, Turkey (37.6° N, 32.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 32.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 11 mammal zone, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Staesche, H.V. Karl, and U. Staesche. 2007. Fossile Schildkroten aus der Turkei. In U. Staesche (ed.), Fossile Schildkroten aus drei Kontinenten 98:91-149 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184395: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Protestudo bessarabica Riabinin 1918 turtle
KD, no number, a juvenile specimen, anterior part destroyed.
Titanochelon kayadibiensis n. sp. Karl et al. 2021 turtle