@article{fdi:010093852,
  title = {{U}pdating the timeline of faunal endemism in {B}alkanatolia, the biogeographic province connecting {E}urope, {A}sia and {A}frica},
  author = {{M}ontheil, {L}. and {L}icht, {A}. and {I}bilioglu, {D}. and {B}ott{\'e}, {P}. and {O}cakoglu, {F}. and {D}emry, {F}. and {R}uffet, {G}. and {G}uihou, {A}. and {K}aya, {M}. and {R}aynaud, {B}. and {A}kkiraz, {M}.{S}. and {D}eschamps, {P}ierre and {M}{\'e}tais, {G}. and {C}oster, {P}. and {B}eard, {K}.{C}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{B}alkanatolia is a {P}aleogene insular biogeographic province, spanning from southeastern {E}urope to the {C}aucasus. {I}t is located at the crossroads of {A}sia, {E}urope, and {A}frica, from which it remained isolated until the late {E}ocene, fostering endemism, particularly among mammals. {H}owever, the timing of emergence of {B}alkanatolia as an independent biogeographic province remain debated due to the paucity of the fossil record and loose age constraints. {H}ere, we refine this timing by combining magnetostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, geochronology and sedimentology to date three fossil sites of central {A}natolia (Çamili {M}ezra, {C}i{\c{c}}ekdagi, and {B}ultu-{Z}ile). {T}hese sites have yielded remains of embrithopods, a clade of large herbivorous afrotherian mammals that originated in {A}frica and dispersed across the {N}eotethys to reach {B}alkanatolia where they diversified. {T}he Çamili {M}ezra locality yield an age spanning from 46.2 {M}a to 43.5 {M}a, likely around ? 45 {M}a based on accumulation rates, the {C}i{\c{c}}ekdagi locality is dated to the very base of {C}hron {C}20r (ca. 46.2 {M}a) and the {B}ultu-{Z}ile locality yield overlapping 46.5 ± 1.0 {M}a and 45.1 ± 0.9 {M}a ages. {O}verall, these fossil localities are coherently dated to the early {L}utetian and represent the oldest unequivocally embrithopod-bearing sites of the northern {N}eotethysian shores. {T}hey provide an early {L}utetian minimum age for {B}alkanatolian endemism, its emergence as an independent biogeographic province and for the overwater dispersal of embrithopods out of {A}frica.},
  keywords = {{ASIE} ; {EUROPE} ; {AFRIQUE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{J}ournal of {A}sian {E}arth {S}ciences},
  volume = {290},
  numero = {},
  pages = {106661 [12 ]},
  ISSN = {1367-9120},
  year = {2025},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.jseaes.2025.106661},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010093852},
}