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The Turolian Park

The fossils unearthed at Kaklıcatepe Hill in the village of Özlüce in the east of Muğla are exhibited in the Muğla Museum Natural History Section as Turolian Era finds. The excavations and research of the Kaklıcatepe fossils were started at the end of 1992 and have been categorised in three separate parts, with examples of cattle, rhinoceros, elephant like creatures, pigs, horses and carnivorous being unearthed. The era to which these finds have been dated is now known as the Turolian since it was in the Teruel Basin in Spain that the first such examples of now extinct species that once covered a wide geographical area from East Asia to Spain five to nine million years were first found.