S-3
Basic information
Sample name: S-3

Sample aka: Samos

Reference: C. C. Black, L. Krishtalka, and N. Solounias. 1980. Mammalian fossils of Samos and Pikermi. Part 1. The Turolian rodents and insectivores of Samos. Annals of Carnegie Museum 49(21):359-378 [ER 2419]
Geography
Country: Greece


Coordinate: 37° 44' N, 26° 55' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Mytilinii

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN12

Max Ma: 7.454

Min Ma: 7.285

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: coordinate based on Mytilinii
the formation "contains abundant tuffs which, according to K-Ar dates of Van Couvering and Miller (1971), are approximately 8.5 Ma old"
S3 has been redated as "late middle Turolian (MN12)" and chron C3Br.2r by Kostopoulos et al. (2003), which is 7.454 to 7.285 Ma based on the time scale of Ogg (2012)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "unstratified marl"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 50 specimens

Years: 1976

Sampling comments: specimens were collected "from three tons of washed matrix"
counts are of CM and UCM specimens only; additional Samos material from the AMNH and elsewhere is not from this exact locality
additional taxa listed and not described include snails, a turtle, a lizard, egg shells, and carnivores and ungulates

Metadata
Sample number: 2634

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-21 19:49:38

Modified: 2023-09-11 10:30:17

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 50
geometric series index: 10.3
Fisher's α: 1.780
geometric series k: 0.4911
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4727
Shannon's H: 1.0295
Good's u: 0.9815
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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