Yulafli (CYA) (Miocene of Turkey)

Where: Thrace, Turkey (41.2° N, 27.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 27.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ergene Formation, MN 10 (9.7 - 8.7 Ma)

• from a single channel fill

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray, yellow sandstone

• "The Ergene formation... consists of yellowish gray, sandy to muddy fluvial facies. The mammalian fossils occur in a channel-filling sand horizon..."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Geraads, T. Kaya, and S. Mayda. 2005. Late Miocene large mammals from Yulafli, Thrace region, Turkey, and their biogeographic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(3):523-544 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67662: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.12.2006

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Taxonomic list

• new collection, not the original locality
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hippotherium cf. primigenium
Hippotherium cf. primigenium von Meyer 1829 hipparionine horse
ID based on two phalanges, which are probably determinate only at the tribe level