Faber Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Faber Quarry

Reference: N. Boulbes, S. Mayda, V. V. Titov, and M. C. Alçiçek. 2014. Les grands mammifères du Villafranchien supérieur des travertins du Bassin de Denizli (Sud-Ouest Anatolie, Turquie). L'anthropologie 118:44-73 [ER 3982]
Geography
Country: Turkey


Coordinate: 37.88° N, 29.36° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 1.6

Min Ma: 1.2

Age basis: other

Geography comments: from the Upper Travertine unit in the Denizli Basin
shown on a map by Rausch et al. (2019) as southwest of Belevi and north-northeast of Kocabas
a 26Al/10Be date of 1.6 to 1.2 Ma was obtained for the Faber Quarry sediments by Lebatard et al. (2014) and appears more reliable than earlier TL and ESR dates; see also Rausch et al. (2019)

Environment
Lithology: limestone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: the Upper Travertine is a ca. 50 m thick limestone grading into a travertine at the top, which are "lacustrine and terrestrial limestone accumulations" in a "marshy environment" preserving mammals with "only minor transport" (Rausch et al. 2019)

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 22 specimens

Sampling comments: a specimen of Homo erectus from north of Kocabas appears to be from the same part of the section but may not be from Faber Quarry sensu stricto (see Rausch et al. 2019)
the "mammal remains are usually found ex situ, during the cutting process of large travertine blocks in the factories surrounding the quarries" (Rausch et al. 2019)

Metadata
Sample number: 4397

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-06 16:18:52

Modified: 2023-12-06 05:28:15

Abundance distribution
8 species
5 singletons
total count 22
geometric series index: 27.6
Fisher's α: 4.523
geometric series k: 0.7197
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7186
Shannon's H: 1.6425
Good's u: 0.7727
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Mammuthus meridionalis meridionalis1
"Archidiskodon meridionalis meridionalis"
Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus3
Equus cf. apolloniensis1
valid, see Boulbes and van Asperen (2019)
Equus cf. altidens10
Metacervoceros rhenanus4
Cervalces (Libralces) ex gr. minor-gallicus1
Palaeotragus sp.1
Antilopini indet.1
"Gazella sp.": see Rausch et al. (2019); specimen apparently not reported by Boulbes et al. (2014)