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A Zygolophodon turicensis (Proboscidea, Mammalia) mandible fragment from the Kale-Tavas basin (Denizli, Turkey)

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Zygolophodon turicensis (Schinz, 1824) is a widely distributed species across Europe from the early to late Miocene; however, it is poorly documented in Turkey. A Zygolophodon turicensis mandible fragment, preserving the m1 and the m2, is described from the middle Miocene (MN6) Avdan locality, which is a carbonous level (southwestern Turkey). The Avdan Zygolophodon turicensis contributes to the understanding of the evolution of this species.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Mihály Gasparik (Hungarian Natural History Museum), Pascal Tassy (Muséum national d’histoire natürelle, Paris), Peter Koenigshof (Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main) and the anonymous reviewer for their useful comments and suggestions. We also appreciate contributions of Tamer Koralay (Pamukkale University Department of Geological Engineering) especially in field study. We also thank M. Tamer Ayvaz (Pamukkale University Department of Civil Engineering) for taking the pictures of the specimens. Our final thanks goes to Meltem Uzunoğlu Erten (Pamukkale University Department of English Language and Literature) for her translations.

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Erten, H., Koralay, D.B. A Zygolophodon turicensis (Proboscidea, Mammalia) mandible fragment from the Kale-Tavas basin (Denizli, Turkey). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 100, 1077–1082 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00422-7

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