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Stratigraphy Of The Mio-Pleistocene Sequence In The Göktepe Region Based On The Fossilrecord (Muğla, Sw Turkey), Özlem Yilmaz, Tali̇p Güngör, Mi̇ne Sezgül Kayseri̇ Özer, Funda Akgün, Serdar Mayda, Tümel Tanju Kaya, Ati̇ke Nazi̇k, Yeşi̇m Büyükmeri̇ç

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The sedimentary basins in SW Turkey (e.g., Kale-Tavas, Yatağan, and Ören basins) that developed after the closure of the Neotethys Ocean allow the reconstruction of the tectonic and paleogeographic history of the region. Due to the rich coal reserves, the Yatağan Basin provides a substantial amount of data to infer the paleoenvironment and paleoclimate during the middle Miocene to Pleistocene. Our work provides new paleontological and radiometric data to constrain the age, paleoclimate, and depositional environment of terrestrial deposits of this basin. We present fossil findings such as mammal bones, gastropods, and palynomorph assemblages from the base of the Turgut …