The late Miocene mammal fauna from Gorna Sushitsa, southwestern Bulgaria, and the early/middle Turolian transition - Sorbonne Université
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The late Miocene mammal fauna from Gorna Sushitsa, southwestern Bulgaria, and the early/middle Turolian transition

Abstract

We describe here the Turolian (late Miocene) faunas from several fossiliferous localities at Gorna Sushitsa (South-Western Bulgaria). The composite fauna is typical for the Turolian of the Balkan. The stratigraphically lowermost locality, GS2, yields more primitive stages of Adcrocuta eximia and Paramachaerodus orientalis than at Pikermi, and could be an early Turolian one, very close to the lower/middle Turolian transition. The faunas from stratigraphically higher localities are characteristic of the Middle Turolian and display (especially those from the upper levels), the features of the typical Pikermi fauna. The Gorna Sushitsa faunas indicate a xerophytic open woodland/shrubland at that time.

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Paleontology
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hal-02470749 , version 1 (07-02-2020)

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Nikolay Spassov, Denis Geraads, Latinka Hristova, Georgi N Markov. The late Miocene mammal fauna from Gorna Sushitsa, southwestern Bulgaria, and the early/middle Turolian transition. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 2019, 291 (3), pp.317-350. ⟨10.1127/njgpa/2019/0804⟩. ⟨hal-02470749⟩
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