Also known as Çandır; Çandir

Where: Ankara, Turkey (40.3° N, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 32.5° E)

When: MN 5 to MN 5 (16.0 - 12.8 Ma)

• "The correlation of the Candir assemblages to an appropriate MN zonation is complicated. Candir was initially biostratigraphically correlated to MN 6 (de Bruijn et al. 1992) and was subsequently reassigned to the MN5 (de Bruijn et al. 2003). As such, the age of Candir is still under debate and is thus dated either as MN5 or MN6 (Casanovas-Vilar et al. 2011; Mayda et al. 2015). Using both biochronological correlations MN 5 and MN 6, the magnetostratigraphic studies (Krijgsman 2003) correlated Candir to the base of the chron C5ACn, 14 Ma and C5ABn, 13.6 Ma respectively. In any case, the overall faunal resemblance between Pasalar and Candir allows a confident correlation of Candir with the local zone F (de Bruijn et al. 2013)." - Cernansky et al (2017)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, silty claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Engesser. 1980. Insectivora und Chiroptera (Mammalia) aus dem Neogen der Türkei. Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Abhandlungen 102:46-149 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68561: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 27.01.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, Terri Cleary and Grace Varnham

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