Maragheh, Pocket G (Miocene of Iran)

Where: Iran (37.4° N, 46.3° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 45.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The cervid remains were found in 'pocket G'. Nine of these pockets were identified - from A to I.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Excavated by the University of Mainz and the Geological Survey of Iran in the 1960s.

Primary reference: H. Tobien. 1980. Cerviden-Reste (Ruminantia, Mammalia) aus dem Obermiozan von Maragheh (Iran). Annalen - Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien 83:329-341 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41821: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Pliocervinae indet. Symeonidis 1974 deer
1 mandible.
cf. Pliocervus sp. Hilzheimer 1922 deer
1 unshed antler fragment.
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope