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A new Middle Miocene mammalian fauna from Mordoğan (Western Turkey)

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Ardiç-Mordoğan is a new fossil Mammal locality in the Karaburun Peninsula of Western Turkey. Among its fauna, which is described here, the carnivores are especially interesting, with the most complete specimens ever found ofPercrocuta miocenica and of a primitive species of hyaenid, of which a new subspecies is described,Protictitherium intermedium paralium. This fauna is strongly reminiscent of those of sever-al other Middle Miocene localities in this area, Çandir, Paşalar and Inönü in Turkey, and Prebreza in Serbia, and they must all belong to the same mammalian zone. Their ungulates attest an open environment which must have been widespread in the Turko-Balkanic area in Serravallian times.

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Ardiç-Mordoğan ist ein neue Fundstelle auf der Karaburun-Halbinsel in der Westtürkei. Unter ihre Fauna, das ist hier beschreibt, sind die Carnivoren besonders interessant, mit die vollständigste bekannten Exemplaren vonPercrocuta miocenica und von eine primitiv Hyänen-Art, von welche ein neue Unterart,Protictitherium intermedium paralium, beschreibt ist. Die Fauna stark gleicht die von mehrere anderen Mittelmiozän Lagerstatten in derselben Gebiet: Çandir, Paşalar und Inönü in Türkei, und Prebreza in Serbien, und sie müssen sich allen zu dieselben Mammal-Zone gehören. Seinen Huftieren bezeugen ein offenes Umwelt, das bei der Türko-Balkanisch Gebiet in Serravallien Zeit verbreiten mussten.

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Kaya, T., Geraads, D. & Tuna, V. A new Middle Miocene mammalian fauna from Mordoğan (Western Turkey). Paläontol Z 77, 293–302 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03006943

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