Book-length treatments of a single formation and its fossils are usually too large and expensive to publish, and don’t have enough readers to justify the expense. Such is not the case with this volume, however, which carefully documents a very important unit, the Miocene Sinap Formation of Turkey. Not only is it one of the thickest and most continuous records of the middle and late Miocene from 15 to 5 Ma, but the Sinap Formation is famous for the fabulous mammal fossils that it yields. These include hundreds of specimens from nine orders of mammals, including the Miocene ape Ankarapithecus...
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