Pasakoy
Basic information
Sample name: Pasakoy

Reference: E. Unay-Bayraktar. 1989. Rodents from the Middle Oligocene of Turkish Thrace. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, Special Publication 5:1-119 [ER 2386]
Geography
Country: Turkey

Coordinate: 41° 54' N, 27° 54' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Lignite-Sandstone

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP25

Geography comments: "just west of the village of Ahmetpasa" apparently very close to Malkara (basis of coordinate)
presumably MP25 based on the age of Kocayarma
the entire formation was "deposited during some one to two million years"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Habitat comments: "from material taken from the dump of a lignite mine" (lithology unclear)

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Excluded forms: other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 32 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 900

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The mesh of the finest sieve used is 0.5 mm...The approximate weight of the matrix washed" was "900 kg"
"The insectivores which occur associated with the rodents will not be dealt with in this paper"

Metadata
Sample no: 2570

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-17 15:07:57

Modified: 2023-09-08 12:00:33

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
7 species
3 singletons
total count 32
geometric series index: 16.6
Fisher's α: 2.765
geometric series k: 0.607
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5665
Shannon's H: 1.2844
Good's u: 0.9062
Register
†Paracricetodon cf. kavakderensis 3
Trakymys cf. saratji 3
†Pseudocricetodon moguntiacus 3
cf subspecies orientalis
†Pseudocricetodon philippi 1
Kerosinia variabilis 20
†Eomys cf. fahlbuschi 1
†Bransatoglis sjeni 1