Primary report of first document of mammal footprints from the late Oligocene in the Sivas basin, Turkey
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Bekir Levent Mesci Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Cem ERKMAN Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Şakir Önder ÖZKURT Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES (Q4)
Dergi ISSN 1300-0985 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2019
Kabul Tarihi 12-04-2026 Yayınlanma Tarihi
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 28 / 6 / 822–833 DOI 10.3906/yer-1905-7
Makale Linki http://online.journals.tubitak.gov.tr/openAcceptedDocument.htm?fileID=1193811no=265158
Özet
The footprints in this study, which were considered to have been made by ungulates, were discovered on mudstone that was approximately 5 cm thick, near an abundant mud-cracked plane located on the stratigraphic subsurface of the late Oligocene Karayün Formation, which crops out over wide areas in southern Sivas (Turkey) and has terrestrial, fluvial sediment characteristics. These ungulate footprints documented from the late Oligocene of the Karayün Formation in southern Sivas represent the first reported vertebrates in Anatolia. The footprints of three different species of ungulates were identified. The shapes, depth, and widths of the footprints provided some basic ichnotaxonomic and TrackMaker information, but based on the poor preservation of the footprints, ichnotaxa identification is difficult. This study aimed to use an ichnotaxonomic approach to contribute to the late Oligocene biochronology in Anatolia due to the small amount of footprint findings in the literature. Ungulate herds left mixed footprints in wetland areas along the banks of flooding rivers. The late Oligocene period was a time characterized by large climate changes in Anatolia; hence, it may have hosted different ecosystems and taxa.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Anatolia | ungulate footprints | paleoichnology | late Oligocene
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Primary report of first document of mammal footprints from the late Oligocene in the Sivas basin, Turkey

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