Mahmutgazi (Miocene of Turkey)

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

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Taxonomic list

• "...although preliminary results were provided (Sickenberg et al. 1975), most of the fauna of large mammals remains unpublished. Exceptions are the Carnivora (Schmidt-kittler 1976), the Proboscidea (Gaziry 1976), part of the Bovidae (Köhler 1987), and the Suidae (Pickford 2016). During a visit to the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe (SMNK) in December 2016, I studied the whole collection of large ungulates stored there, except the suids."
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854 hyaena
Protictitherium crassum Deperet 1892 hyaena
Ma3
 Carnivora - Felidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium pentelicum Gaudry and Lartet 1856 chalicothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium neumayri Osborn 1900 white rhino
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Hippopotamodon erymanthius Roth and Wagner 1854 pig
Pickford, 2016
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Samotherium major Bohlin 1926 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Palaeoryx pallasi Wagner 1857 antelope
? Plesiaddax sp. Schlosser 1903 antelope
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937 antelope
? Sporadotragus parvidens Gaudry 1861 antelope
? Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891 antelope