Also known as Paşalar
Where: Bursa, Turkey (40.0° N, 28.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 28.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN 5 (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; concretionary, gray, green, calcareous siltstone and fine-grained, pebbly, gray, white, sandy sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: "discovered in 1969 during a lignite exploration... Some of these localities [including Pasalar] were subsequently investigated by a German research team"
Primary reference: P. Andrews and H. Tobien. 1977. New Miocene locality in Turkey with evidence of the origin of Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus. Nature 268:699-701 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 68547: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 25.01.2007, edited by John Alroy, Evangelos Vlachos and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Ctenodactylidae indet. Gervais 1853 gundi | |
Pseudodryomys sp. de Bruijn 1966 dormouse | |
cf. Spermophilinus bredai von Meyer 1848 squirrel | |
Dipodidae indet. Waterhouse 1842 rodent | |
cf. Rhizomys sp. Gray 1831 greater bamboo rat | |
Democricetodon sp. Fahlbusch 1964 mouse | |
Prolagus cf. oeningensis König 1825 pika | |
"Sivapithecus darwini" = Sivapithecus, "Ramapithecus wickeri" = Sivapithecus
"Sivapithecus darwini" = Sivapithecus ape
"Ramapithecus wickeri" = Sivapithecus ape | |
Erinaceinae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
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Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
"Beliajevina tekkayai" = Procoelodonta (Pasalarhinus) tekkayai
"Beliajevina tekkayai" = Procoelodonta (Pasalarhinus) tekkayai Heissig 1974 rhinoceros | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Anchitherium sp. von Meyer 1844 anchitheriine horse | |
Schizochoerus sp. Crusafont-Pairo and Lavocat 1954 even-toed ungulate | |
Conohyus sp. Pilgrim 1926 pig | |
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer | |
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
Prostrepsiceros cf. rotundicornis antelope
Protoryx cf. carolinae Major 1891 antelope | |
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Protictitherium sp., Protictitherium aff. gaillardi, "Protictitherium intermedium" = Protoviverrops intermedium
Protictitherium aff. gaillardi Forsyth Major 1903 hyaena
"Protictitherium intermedium" = Protoviverrops intermedium Schmidt-Kittler 1976 hyaena | |
Amphicyon cf. major De Blainville 1841 bear-dog | |
Trochictis sp. von Meyer 1842 mustelid carnivore | |
Proputorius sp. Filhol 1890 carnivoran | |
Ursavus cf. primaevus Gaillard 1899 bear
Ursavus aff. intermedius von Koenigswald 1925 bear
Plithocyon sp. Ginsburg 1955 bear
Hemicyon sansaniensis Lartet 1851 bear | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Deinotherium giganteum Kaup 1829 deinothere | |
Gomphotherium angustidens Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
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