Pleistocene mammals from travertine deposits of the Denizli basin (SW Turkey)

A new genus and species of Muridae (Rodentia) from the Quaternary deposits of the Denizli Basin, South-western Turkey

“…Old travertine formations are widely observed in different parts of the basin, especially along its northern parts. The total area of travertines in the basin covers more than 100 km 2 whose thickness is sometimes over 75 m (Erten et al, 2005;Özkul et al, 2013). The depressional field travertines yielded scarce vertebrate fossils in some quarried locali- ties.…”

“…The depressional field travertines yielded scarce vertebrate fossils in some quarried locali- ties. There are various studies on these fossils (Erten et al, 2005;Kappelman et al, 2008;Boulbes et al, 2014). These travertines in Denizli (Turkey), where Homo erectus was also found, were dated by Lebatard et al (2014) at least 1.1 Ma.…”

“…Boulbes et al (2014) described more remains of large mammals from these travertines. Also, they revised the fossils previously described by Erten et al (2005). The new faunal list described by Boulbes et al (2014) includes Archidiskodon meridionalis meridionalis, Stephanorhinus cf.…”

“…Studies on the Quaternary aged localities of the Denizli Basin generally concern large mammals that are found in the travertines. In the first study on fossils from travertine deposits, Erten et al (2005) reported on Equus aff. suessenbornensis, Bos sp.…”

A new Early Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Burdur Basin, SW Turkey

“…Therefore, we tentatively refer the studied specimens to as Equus sp. In Turkey, systematically studied equid records from Sarikol Tepe (Early Pleistocene; Kostopoulos & Sen, 1999), Gülyazi (Late Pliocene, Bernor & Lipscomb, 1991), Denizli (Erten et al, 2005;Boulbes et al, 2014), and Çal (Alçiçek et al, 2012) have been identified as Equus stenonis, Plesiohipparion huangheense, and E. suessenbornensis, E. apolloniensis and E. hydruntinus, respectively. There are also preliminary described remains of Pleistocene forms from Middle Villafranchian sites of Kamiþli and Yukari Söðütönü (Sickenberg & Tobien, 1971).…”