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Mapping projects in continental Tertiary basins under the auspices of the M.T.A. (Mineral Exploration and Research Institute of Turkey) led in recent years to the discovery of many sites yielding small mammals from formations that were previously considered to be unfossiliferous. This study gives a brief account of the lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the continental deposits of the southern part of the Kayseri-Sivas basin. The rodent assemblages collected in that area are ranging in age from the Middle Oligocene to the early Pliocene, showing a gap in the early Miocene. We have filled this hiatus in our knowledge by studying two assemblages from successive levels in the lignite quarry of Harami (Akşehir area).
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Sümengen, M., Ünay, E., Sarac, G., de Bruijn, H., Terlemez, I., Gürbüz, M. (1990). New Neogene Rodent Assemblages from Anatolia (Turkey). In: Lindsay, E.H., Fahlbusch, V., Mein, P. (eds) European Neogene Mammal Chronology. NATO ASI Series, vol 180. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2513-8_5
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