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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
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Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse |