Analysis of middle miocene locality of Afyon-Gebeceler coprolite findings

Coprolites (fossil feces) were recorded at few localities from all around the world and Turkey. Coprolite findings give significant data about taphonomical process of fossil localities with the improvement of various microscopy and geochemical analysis. Especially, this analysis provides the most exact evidence about the history of predator-prey relationship that opens a window into the past. However coprolite studies in Turkey are very limited. As a result of this study, Middle Miocene (13, 5 Ma) locality of Gebeceler coprolites with Ankara-Çandır and Ankara-Sinap coprolites were examined biometrically and morphologically (non-Destructive) which showed close resemblage among these localities. According to the comparisons the coprolites of a bone crusher carnivore species (Percrocuta tungurensis) that was described in Çandır fauna were found to resemble to the coprolites found in Gebeceler locality. In paleoecological point of view, as P.tungurensis is generalized scavengers they were well adopted to open woodlands.