D. Geraads 2017

Full reference
D. Geraads. 2017. Late Miocene large mammals from Mahmutgazi, Denizli province, Western Turkey. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 284(3):241-257 [E. Vlachos/P. Kampouridis]
Metadata
ID number:  67382
Created:  2018-11-19 15:28:55
Publication type:  journal article
Taxonomy:  stated with evidence
Language:  English
DOI:  10.1127/njgpa/2017/0661
Comments: The upper Miocene locality of Mahmutgazi in Western Turkey was excavated in the 70s by a German team, but most of its large mammals had never been studied. The collection housed in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe, contains, besides previously published groups, large samples of Giraffidae (Samotherium), Rhinocerotidae (including a nice complete skull of Ceratotherium neumayri), and Equidae, as well as some Chalicotheriidae (Ancylotherium) and Bovidae (Boselaphini), which are studied here. Three fossiliferous spots, Ma1, Ma2, and Ma3 have been recognized but I regard the first two, and probably also the third one, as contemporaneous. Although the fossil assemblage certainly does not reflect the full original taxonomic diversity, tentative biochronological conclusions can be proposed: the site is probably older than Şerefköy, Akkaşdağı, and the ‘Dominant Fossil Assemblage’ of Samos, but definitely younger than the early part of the Samos sequence.
Taxonomic opinions (17) - view classification
'Antilope pallasi is recombined as Palaeoryx pallasi' according to Schlosser 1904
'Atelodus neumayri is recombined as Ceratotherium neumayri' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Capra amalthea is recombined as Tragoportax amalthea' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Ceratotherium belongs to Rhinocerotidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Gazella belongs to Bovidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Hippopotamodon erymanthius belongs to Hippopotamodon' according to Roth and Wagner 1854
'Hippopotamodon belongs to Suidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Palaeoreas belongs to Bovidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Palaeoryx belongs to Bovidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Pseudotragus parvidens belongs to Pseudotragus' according to A. Gaudry 1861
'Pseudotragus belongs to Bovidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Rhinocerotidae belongs to Perissodactyla' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Samotherium major belongs to Samotherium' according to B. Bohlin 1926
'Samotherium belongs to Giraffidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Suidae belongs to Cetartiodactyla' according to D. Geraads 2017
'Tragoportax gaudryi belongs to Tragoportax' according to M. Kretzoi 1941
'Tragoportax belongs to Bovidae' according to D. Geraads 2017
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