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New faunas of small mammals from old Harami mine (early Miocene, Anatolia, Turkey)

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Two new small mammal assemblages from the abandoned Harami lignite mine, as an addition to previously known Harami assemblages, provide a better insight in the palaeoenvironments in Anatolia in local Biozone C (MN 2, early Miocene). Based on the new material, the Eumyarion assemblages are considered to consist of three, rather than two species, in line with the situation in younger localities in the region. Eumyarion strongly dominates the highly diverse assemblages of Harami 1 and 4, which are interpreted as indicative of a swamp. By contrast, Latocricetodon is the most common murid in Harami 3, which may represent more marshy conditions. The small fauna from Harami 5 is clearly younger that the other assemblages. It indicates a local change to more open conditions.

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Acknowledgements

We are thankful to management of the Ilgın lignite mine company for providing access to the localities and for support during the fieldwork. The authors would like to thank the reviewers Jérôme Prieto and Olivier Maridet for their valuable comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the paper.

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This work was funded by National Geographic grant “Palaeogeography of mammals following the collision of the African and Eurasian plates” (GEFNE 140-15). This study was also supported by SRDA under Grant APVV-15-0575 and VEGA 1/0702/17. PJ, PPC and LHO gratefully acknowledge the support of Ege University short-term research grants. LHO acknowledges gratefully the support of Tübitak under the 2221 program for visiting scientists.

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  1. Department of Geology and Paleontology, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina G, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Peter Joniak & Melike Bilgin

  2. Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 2 Gutiérrez Abascal, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Pablo Peláez-Campomanes

  3. Biyoloji Bölümü, Fen Fakültesi, Ege Universitesi, 35100 Bornova-, Izmir, Turkey

    Serdar Mayda

  4. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, Netherlands

    Melike Bilgin & Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende

  5. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Kazım Halaçlar

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Joniak, P., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Mayda, S. et al. New faunas of small mammals from old Harami mine (early Miocene, Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 99, 673–700 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-018-0349-9

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