Turija
Basic information
Sample name: Turija
Sample aka: Banovici; BIH; BAN
Reference: A. de Leeuw, O. Mandic, H. de Bruijn, Z. Markovic, J. Reumer, W. Wessels, E. Sisic, and W. Krijgsman. 2011. Magnetostratigraphy and small mammals of the Late Oligocene Banovici basin in NE Bosnia and Herzegovina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 310:400-412 [ER 2379]
Geography
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinate: 44° 25' 33" N, 18° 26' 31" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Oligocene
Zone: MP30/MN1
Ma: 24.1
Age basis: paleomag
Geography comments: "in the Turija open-pit mine" near the town of Banovici
"top MP30/base MN1... Late Oligocene to Early Miocene" and a "the base of C6Cr"; shown in a figure at 24.1 Ma, and the "astronomically tuned age of this boundary in the Gradstein et al. (2004) timescale is 23.03 Ma"
"top MP30/base MN1... Late Oligocene to Early Miocene" and a "the base of C6Cr"; shown in a figure at 24.1 Ma, and the "astronomically tuned age of this boundary in the Gradstein et al. (2004) timescale is 23.03 Ma"
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: lake deposit
Habitat comments: lacustrine deposits; "The fossils... were collected from a 20 cm thick lignitic clay bed which contains limestone nodules and is located just below the main coal layer" in the local section
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 296 specimens
Sampling comments: "Two tons of sediment were washed and sieved over 0.5 mm sieves"
numerous insectivores, marsupials, and lagomorphs are listed without counts being given
the locality was originally described by de Leeuw et al. (2011, ER 2379)
rodent IDs follow de Brujn et al. (2013)
Counts excluded:
Desmanodon sp. - 1
numerous insectivores, marsupials, and lagomorphs are listed without counts being given
the locality was originally described by de Leeuw et al. (2011, ER 2379)
rodent IDs follow de Brujn et al. (2013)
Counts excluded:
Desmanodon sp. - 1
Metadata
Sample number: 2558
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-16 11:51:23
Modified: 2023-09-08 11:56:23
Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 385
geometric series index: 25.7
Fisher's α: 4.479
geometric series k: 0.7864
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8816
Shannon's H: 2.4597
Good's u: 0.9948
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Palaeosciurus aff. feignouxi | 8 | |
| Dehmisciurus obtusidens | 2 | |
| "Ratufa ? obtusidens": see Bosma et al. 2018 | ||
| Bransatoglis bosniensis | 13 | |
| new | ||
| Bransatoglis fugax | 14 | |
| Microdyromys cf. monspeliensis | 28 | |
| Deperetomys magnus | 34 | |
| new | ||
| Mirrabella aff. anatolica | 13 | |
| Eumyarion margueritae | 55 | |
| new | ||
| Eumyarion microps | 96 | |
| Vetusspalax progressus | 33 | |
| new | ||
| Amphiperatherium cf. exile | 5 | |
| Erinaceinae indet. | 1 | |
| Desmanodon aff. ziegleri | 3 | |
| Geotrypus sp. | 3 | |
| Suleimania aff. ruemkae | 31 | |
| Crocidosorex sp. | 1 | |
| questionably assigned | ||
| Srinitium sp. | 15 | |
| questionably assigned | ||
| Oligosorex sp. 1 | 17 | |
| Oligosorex sp. 2 | 3 | |
| Heterosoricidae indet. | 10 | |