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Fish, amphibian and reptilian faunas from latest Oligocene to middle Miocene localities from Central Turkey

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In this paper, we describe ectothermic vertebrate assemblages from the Kargı 1, Kargı 2, Kargı 3, Harami1, Harami 3, Hancılı, Keseköy, Çandır and Bağiçi localities in Turkey. The ages of these localities range from the latest Oligocene to the middle Miocene. The preserved non-mammalian fauna of the studied localities includes fishes (Luciobarbus sp., Barbus sp., Luciobarbus vel Barbus sp., aff. Capoeta sp., Barbini indet., Leuciscus sp.), anurans (Bufonidae indet. (? Pseudepidalea sp.), Pelobatidae indet., Latonia sp., Palaeobatrachidae indet.), caudates (Salamandra sp.), lizards (Pseudopus sp., Lacertidae indet. 1, Lacertidae indet. 2, Lacertidae indet. 3, Lacertidae indet. 4, Blanidae indet. (?Blanus sp.)), snakes (Albaneryx sp., Erycinae indet.) and crocodiles (Crocodylia indet.). Here, we describe, for the first time, the fossil occurrences of the genera Salamandra, Albaneryx and Pseudopus from Anatolia, as well as the first fossil representative of the clade of the Western Asian lizards (Lacertidae indet. 3). Our study provides the earliest known fossil occurrences of the genera Luciobarbus, Barbus, Pseudopus and Albaneryx. Palaeobiogeographic relationships of each studied group are discussed and compared with the European and Asiatic records. A tentative palaeoenvironmental reconstruction is provided for each locality.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Wilma Wessels (University Utrecht) for support and providing all necessary details about the studied material and locality. We would like to acknowledge Sevket Sen for the information about the Hancılı locality. We also thank the reviewers (Andrea Villa, Olga Otero and an anonymous reviewer), whose critical comments improved the manuscript. We would like to address our special thanks to the guest editor of this special issue—Lars van den Hoek Ostende—as well as to the managing editor of the journal Sinje Weber, whose comments and suggestions significantly improved the manuscript.

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The contribution by ZR was funded by the research plan of the Institute of Geology of the CAS (RVO67985831).

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Vasilyan, D., Roček, Z., Ayvazyan, A. et al. Fish, amphibian and reptilian faunas from latest Oligocene to middle Miocene localities from Central Turkey. Palaeobio Palaeoenv 99, 723–757 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00405-3

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