The Late Villafranchian large mammals from the Denizli Basin travertines (Southwest Anatolia, Turkey)

The large mammals from travertine deposits in the Denizli basin include the following species: Archidiskodon meridionalis meridionalis, Equus cf. altidens s. l., E. cf. apolloniensis, Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus, Metacemceros rhenanus, Cervalces (Libralces) ex gr. minor-gallicus, Palaeotragus sp., Bovinae gen. and sp. indet. This association resembles those from the late Villafranchian of Southern and Eastern Europe, and, to some extent, from Westem Asia, and could be older than 1.2 Ma. (C) 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.