New bones of giant rhinoceros fossil found in Çankırı
The excavations, which started in 2015 after a citizen found bone fragments in the Sungurlu district of Çorum in 2014, continue near the Kemallı village of Çankırı's Kızılırmak district. This year's field studies of the excavations, which have been carried out intermittently since 2015 by the experts of the Martyr Cuma Dağ Natural History Museum of the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration, have been completed.
MTA General Directorate Martyr Cuma Dağ Natural History Museum Vertebrate Paleontology Team Chief Geological Engineer Dr. Neşe Oyal told Anadolu Agency (AA) that they found new fossil fragments during this year's excavations.
Reminding that there were giant rhinoceros fossils estimated to be about 28 million years old in the region, Oyal said, "The discovery of giant rhinoceros fossils, known as the largest land mammal ever, in Anatolia is of great importance in terms of determining their migration routes and distribution areas."
Oyal continued:
"The first fossil findings belonging to a giant rhinoceros in the Çankırı, Kızılırmak Kemallı locality were discovered during the preliminary survey studies within the scope of the MTA Museum Research Project in 2015. In the studies we conducted here in 2015, findings of surrounding bones such as the humerus, forearm bone, tibia, finger, bone, wrist bones, and foot bones of the giant rhino were detected. In the study we carried out within the scope of the Museum Research Project of the MTA General Directorate in Kemallı this year, samples of the surrounding bones of the giant rhino were identified. To give an exact age for the findings at these localities, we think the giant rhino is 28 million years old."
"We found that the most fossil specimens of giant rhinoceros are in Turkey"
Pointing out that giant rhino specimens were mostly encountered in Mongolia, China, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia in previous years, Oyal said: This year, we carried out studies in Kemallı locality. We found new specimens of the giant rhinoceros. We carried these samples to our museum in Ankara. After they are restored in the paleontology laboratories in the museum, their inventory numbers will be given and they will be archived. Suitable examples, remarkable ones will be exhibited and presented to the taste and interest of our people."
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