Beydere 3
Basic information
Sample name: Beydere 3

Reference: M. Bilgin, P. Joniak, P. P. Campomanes, F. Göktas, S. Mayda, C. Lorinser, J. Wijbrans, T. Kaya, and L. W. van den Hoek Ostende. 2023. Beydere 3: a new early Miocene small mammal assemblage from western Anatolia, Turkey. Historical Biology 35(7):1092-1111 [ER 3928]
Geography
Country: Turkey

State: Manisa


Coordinate: 38.682957° N, 27.264252° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Formation: Soma Formation

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3

Ma: 18.209999

Age basis: Ar-Ar

Geography comments: The locality is situated just over 1 km east of Beydere village, Western Anatolia, Turkey

Based on faunal composition it has been correlated with MN3

The overlying section was dated using Ar-Ar dating to 18.21 +/- 0.19 Ma

Environment
Lithology: mudstone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: "calcareous mudstone levels containing dense gastropod shell fragments and tuffogenes"

The presence of a beaver indicates a relatively wet palaeoenvironment

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 222 specimens

Years: 2015, 2018

Sampling comments: ~1.5 tons of sediment was screenwashed (mesh size 0.5 mm)

Counts excluded:
Eumyarion sp. - 11

Metadata
Sample number: 4330

Contributor: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-07-12 14:50:10

Modified: 2023-09-11 10:57:59

Abundance distribution
12 species
1 singleton
total count 222
geometric series index: 15.5
Fisher's α: 2.718
geometric series k: 0.6746
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8062
Shannon's H: 1.9258
Good's u: 0.9955
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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