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Sabuncubeli too, Bornova, a second micromammal assemblage from the Sabuncubeli section (early Miocene, western Anatolia)

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An old test sample from the Sabuncubeli Formation (Manisa, Turkey) yielded an interesting faunule, which, however, up to now had never been described. In Bornova 183, now inaccessible, five species of micromammal were encountered: the hamsters Eumyarion aff. montanus, E. intercentralis and Cricetodon kasapligili, the squirrel Palaeosciurus fissurae and the talpid Desmanodon sp.. The locality is known to be in superposition to the previously published locality of Sabuncubeli. A new sample of the latter provided five new elements to the fauna: the mole Theratiskos sp., the dimylid Turkodimylus sp., the shrew Oligosorex aff. reumeri, the glirid Glirulus ekremi and a bat Vespertilionidae gen. et sp.. The high diversity of insectivores in the locality confirms a humid environment for Sabuncubeli. Both assemblages are referable to local zone D or MN unit 3. However, differences in the stage of evolution of some faunal elements suggest a considerable time difference, indicating that the Sabuncubeli formation covers at least a major part of this time period.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the reviewers Jérôme Prieto and János Hír. We are grateful to Delia van Oijen (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) for access to and helping with the SEM.

Funding

This study was funded by National Geographic grant “Palaeogeography of mammals following the collision of the African and Eurasian plates” (GEFNE 140-15). MB has obtained Synthesys (NL-TAF-5889 and ES-TAF-7048) and Comenius University grants of doctoral students (UK/123/2019). This study was supported by the Ege University (TTM/001/2016) and (TTM/002/2016) to TK, SM and MB. PJ was partly supported by Slovak Scientific Grant Agency (VEGA 1/0702/17) and SRDA (APVV-15-0575) and MB by (VEGA 1/0164/19). LHO acknowledges the support of Tübitak under the visiting researcher program. LHO, PJ, FG and PPC gratefully acknowledge the support of Ege University short-term research grants.

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  1. Department of Geology and Paleontology, Comenius University, SK-84215, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Melike Bilgin & Peter Joniak

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

    Melike Bilgin & Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende

  3. Faculty of Science, Biology Department, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Serdar Mayda & Tanju Kaya

  4. MTA Geology Department, Izmir, Turkey

    Fikret Göktaş

  5. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, MNCN-CSIC, C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Pablo Peláez Campomanes

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Bilgin, M., Joniak, P., Mayda, S. et al. Sabuncubeli too, Bornova, a second micromammal assemblage from the Sabuncubeli section (early Miocene, western Anatolia). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 99, 655–671 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00395-2

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