Also known as AK 95-52
Where: Ankara, Turkey (40.1° N, 32.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 28.2° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kartal Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Originally described as coming from the Kartal Formation, the vertebrate-bearing redbeds of the Kartal Formation north of Ankara were renamed as the Uzuncaridere Formation by Maas et al. (2001; see also Gul, 2003; Sen, 2013)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. C. Maas, J. G. M. Thewissen, and J. Kappelman. 1998. Hypsamasia seni (Mammalia: Embrithopoda) and other mammals from the Eocene Kartal Formation of Turkey. Bulletin of the Carnigie Museum of Natural History 34:286-297 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84511: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
Mammalia | |
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? Marsupialia indet. marsupial | |
"Ungulata indet." = Euungulata
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Hypsamasia seni n. gen. n. sp.
Hypsamasia seni n. gen. n. sp. Maas et al. 1998 placental | |
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811 proboscidean | |
"Herpetotheriinae indet." = Herpetotheriidae
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Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Serpentes indet. snake | |
Lacertilia indet. lizard | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian |