Gorna Sushitsa Village (GS8) (Miocene of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (41.6° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 23.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN11-12 mammal zone, Turolian (8.7 - 5.3 Ma)

• MN11-12 zone; Middle Turolian; Böhme et al. (2018) dated it to 7.36 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Boev. 2020. First European Neogene record of true pheasants from Gorna Sushitsa (SW Bulgaria). Historia naturalis bulgarica 41:33-39 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209223: authorized by Alex Lin, entered by Alex Lin on 27.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Phasianus bulgaricus n. sp. Boev 2020 pheasant
NMNHS 15143 - type