EVIDENCE OF ANATOLIA’S SPECIES RICHNESS MILLION YEARS AGO: BÜYÜKTEFLEK
Now, the team of French, American and Turkish paleontologists and geologists, led by researchers from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), think they have found the answer.
Scientists have discovered a new fossil bed in Turkey, called Büyükteflek, dating back 38 to 35 million years. Home to mammals of Asian origin, the bed has the earliest fossils ever discovered in Anatolia. In addition, the researchers found jaw fragments of Brontotheres, similar to large rhinoceroses that died out at the end of the Eocene, in the area.
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