BATI VE ORTA ANADOLU ERKEN MİYOSEN MEMELİ FOSİL FAUNALARININ REVİZYONU
Project no. 1090 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
The rich fossil deposits of Turkey are of great interest, because of their location on intercontinental crossroads. Micromammalian fossils especially provide important data for stratigraphic, palaeogeographic and paleoecological purposes. Mammalian fossils contribute for the evolutionary work on mammalian phylogeny, to the intercontinental and intracontinental correlation of terrestrial Tertiary sediments, to the understanding of faunal migration, to the construction of biochronology, to understand palaeogeography and even to reconstruct the tectonic evolution of regions. For all these reasons, understanding of the fossil finds of mammals of Anatolia is of great importance. The subject of this study is the palaeontological, palaeoecological and palaeogeographical correlation of the micromammal fossils in localities from Ankara (Keseköy), Manisa (Sabuncubeli), İçel (Yapıntı), Aydın (Söke, Dededağ) with a taxonomic study of the Gördes and Bornova locality. The Bornova micromammalian fauna consists of Eumyarion montanus, Eumyarion cf. intercentralis, Cricetodon cf. kasapligili and Palaeosciurus fissurae. Faunal assemblage indicates Early Miocene age (MN 3) (18 million years ago). The Gördes micromammalian fauna consists of Galerix uenayae, Turkodimylus sp., Dinosorex anatolicus, Democricetodon cf. doukasi, Deperetomys aff. Intermedius, Glirudinus aff. haramiensis, Palaeosciurus sp., cf. Hanakia agadjaniani. Faunal assemblage indicates Early Miocene age (MN 3) (18 million years ago). Using both our own studies and data from literature, we discuss the stratigraphic distribution, palaeobiogeographic and palaeoecological implications of the general micromammalian fauna during this vital period in the faunal history of Turkey. Collected micromammalian fossils would be exhibited in E.U. Natural History Museum and eventually, exhibition material of the museum was evaluated.