Mahmutgazi: Late/Upper Miocene, Turkey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Choerolophon pentelici
Cremohipparion cf. matthewi
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium neumayri (Osborn 1900)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Ancylotherium pentelicum (Gaudry and Lartet 1856)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
Mammalia - Suidae
Hippopotamodon erymanthius Roth and Wagner 1854
Pickford, 2016
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella cf. capricornis
? Sporadotragus parvidens (Gaudry 1861)
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937
Miotragocerus gaudryi
? Prostrepsiceros sp. Forsyth Major 1891
Palaeoryx pallasi (Wagner 1857)
original and current combination Antilope pallasi
? Plesiaddax sp. Schlosser 1903
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Samotherium major Bohlin 1926
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus cf. aphanistus (Kaup 1833)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Protictitherium crassum Deperet 1892
Ma3
Adcrocuta eximia Roth and Wagner 1854
Ictitherium hipparionum
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791
see common names

Geography
Country:Turkey State/province:Denizli
Coordinates: 38.0° North, 29.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 29.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "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."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: The locality of Mahmutgazi in Western Turkey was excavated by Sickenberg and colleagues in the 1970s.
Taxonomic list comments:"...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preliminary results were provided (Sickenberg et al. 1975), most of the fauna of large mammals remains unpublished.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."
Metadata
Database number:197642
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:P. Kampouridis
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-11-19 15:49:47 Last modified:2018-11-19 15:49:47
Access level:the public Released:2018-11-19 15:49:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67382. 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]