Kargin (Miocene of Turkey)

Also known as Garkin

Where: Afyon, Turkey (38.4° N, 30.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 30.5° 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 184398: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.02.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Titanochelon kayadibiensis Karl et al. 2021 turtle