Figure 10. The increase in elongation of the I2 of Microstonyx as indicated by the index 100 DMD/DLL. A value from Concud is a minimum value because of breakage; this is indicated with an arrow. Legend: triangles = material assigned to M. major; squares = material assigned to M. erymanthius; rhombs = Sus. As a comparison, indices of samples of recent Sus verrucosus from Java (Indonesia; NNML) and of recent Sus scrofa from the Golan Heights (Syrian territory occupied by Israel; HUJ). The provenance of the remaining data is as in Figure 4. Correlations or ages of the localities based on paleomagnetism or radiometric dating are indicated by arrows; assignments to MN units are indicated by dotted lines. For Samos: MT = Marker Tuff; MMB = Main Bone Beds; OMB = Old Mill Beds. All localities are placed within the ranges of their possible age as indicated by their MN units or "absolute" age; in addition, they have been arranged according to ascending (upper figure) or descending index values (lower figure), with the only constraint that a locality with very low values cannot be below Kavakdere. There are 2 options for the MN11-12 boundary: 7.5 and 7.9 Ma. The upper figure favors the idea of an evolution with increasing index values, while the lower figure blurs this pattern.

Published as part of Made, Jan Van Der, Güleç, Erksin & Erkman, Ahmet Cem, 2013, Microstonyx (Suidae, Artiodactyla) from the Upper Miocene of Hayranlı-Haliminhanı, Turkey, pp. 106-122 in Turkish Journal of Zoology 37 (1) on page 117, DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1202-4, http://zenodo.org/record/10973662