Where: Turkey (40.7° N, 32.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 30.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Age given as 22.5 Ma (presumably based on dating of volcanics associated with volcano-sedimentary paleolake), which places it in the earliest Miocene.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified diatomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Paicheler in 1977; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: A. Nel and J. Petrulevicius. 2003. New Palaeogene bees from Europe and Asia. Alcheringa 27:277-293 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123307: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2012, edited by Jered Karr

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