Also known as DKV

Where: Bulgaria (42.0° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 14 (4.9 - 4.2 Ma)

• "an immense concentration of skeletons in a layer more than 1 m thick"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• material is in the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia

•excavations were conducted from 1985 through 1987

Primary reference: E. Delson, H. Thomas, and N. Spassov. 2005. Fossil Old World monkeys (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Pliocene of Dorkovo, Bulgaria. Geodiversitas 27(1):159-166 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71061: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.04.2007

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