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Maragheh in northwestern of Iran is a world famous Miocene fossil-bearing area. The area has yielded classical late Miocene Turolian age fauna that has been collected and studied sporadically over the last 150 years. However, the precise correlation of these sediments to the Global Time Scale (GTS) has remained ambiguous. To address this, 115 levels along an approximately 27-m-thick interval were...