G. Taner’s scientific contributions

... The age range for the deposition of the Yıldırımlı Formation is suggested to be between 2.35 and 1.93 Ma. However, a synthesis of the data of Kapan-Yeşilyurt and Taner (2002), based on the age of freshwater mollusks (1.998-1.891 Ma), and the magnetostratigraphic data from İnce (2019) and İnce et al. (2020) suggests an age of 2.0-1.9 ...

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Oldest hippopotamus record (Hippopotamus antiquus) from Anatolia (Datça Peninsula, Southwest Türkiye)

... Anatolia, within the borders of Asia, accounts for some 97% area of the country, and Turkish Thrace region forms the rest of the country on the eastern part of the European continent. These two landmasses are separated from each other not only by the sea barrier but also by their geological history, which is distinct (Demirsoy 2002;Meriç et al. 2000). The general faunistic history of Anatolia begins roughly with the Oligocene (Demirsoy 2002;Atalay 2006;Okay 2008). ...

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The Gomphocerinae Tarbinsky, 1932 (Orthoptera: Acrididae) fauna of the Turkish Thrace