Eskisehir: Early/Lower Pleistocene, Turkey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Struthio sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus ? planifrons
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Mammuthus meridionalis
(Nesti 1825)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Anancus arvernensis
(Croizet and Jobert 1828)
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Macaca sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Orientalomys galacticus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Mimomys sp.
Forsyth-Major 1902
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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| Canis etruscus/mosbachensis | ||||||||||
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Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella borbonica
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cf. Leptobos sp.
Rutimeyer 1878
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Eucladoceros sp.
Falconer 1868
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Cervus elephas
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Paracamelus sp.
Schlosser 1903
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus stenonis
Cocchi 1867
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| recombined as Allohippus stenonis | ||||||||||
| Equus (A.) stenonis | ||||||||||
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Dicerorhinus sp.
Gloger 1841
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| small | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Turkey |
| Coordinates: | 39.8° North, 30.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.8° North, 30.2° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 60 meters |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Pleistocene, Middle Villafranchian (based on fauna).
Neogene limnic basin fill, then disconformably above this are 5+ m of fluvial sands and light gravels, overlain by several meters of lower energy fluvial silts and gravels. |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Specimens kept at MTA, Ankara. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Yukari-Sogutonu, Yukari-Sögütönü | ||
| Database number: | 39321 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Turner | Enterer: | H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | H. O'Regan | Research group: | PACED |
| Created: | 2004-05-26 08:36:08 | Last modified: | 2004-06-13 11:56:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-26 08:36:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10839. | PACED | J.-D. Becker-Platen and O. Sickenberg. 1968. Die unterpleistozaenen Kiese von Eskisehir (Anatolien) und ihre Saugertierfauna. Mitteilungen des Geologischen Instituts der Technischen Hochschule in Hannover 8:7-20 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |
Secondary references:
| 10617 | PACED | E. Gulec, F. C. Howell, and T. D. White. 1999. Dursunlu - a new Lower Pleistocene faunal and artifact-bearing locality in southern Anatolia. in Ullrich, H., ed, Hominid evolution - Lifestyles and survival strategies. Edition Archaea, Gelsenkirchen/Schwelm. 349-364 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |