Where: Denizli, Turkey (38.0° N, 29.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 29.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• "Both the scarce field data and the study of the collection leave no doubt as to the contemporaneity of the faunas from Ma1 and Ma2, which can thus be regarded as a single one ... Ma3 looks contemporaneous with the other spots, although it is safer to discuss it separately."
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: The locality of Mahmutgazi in Western Turkey was excavated by Sickenberg and colleagues in the 1970s.
Primary reference: D. Geraads. 2017. Late Miocene large mammals from Mahmutgazi, Denizli province, Western Turkey. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 284(3):241-257 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197642: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Panagiotis Kampouridis on 19.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
Ictitherium hipparionum hyaena | |
Machairodus cf. aphanistus Kaup 1833 cat | |
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse | |
Ancylotherium pentelicum Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere | |
Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn 1900 white rhino | |
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Samotherium major Bohlin 1926 giraffe | |
Palaeoryx pallasi, ? Plesiaddax sp., Tragoportax sp., ? Sporadotragus parvidens, Miotragocerus gaudryi, Gazella cf. capricornis, ? Prostrepsiceros sp.
Palaeoryx pallasi Wagner 1857 antelope
? Plesiaddax sp. Schlosser 1903 antelope
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937 antelope
? Sporadotragus parvidens Gaudry 1861 antelope
Miotragocerus gaudryi antelope
Gazella cf. capricornis gazelle
? Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope |