Oberdorf 4
Basic information
Sample name: Oberdorf 4
Reference: H. de Bruijn. 1998. Vertebrates from the Early Miocene lignite deposits of the opencast mine Oberdorf (Western Styrian Basin, Austria): 6. Rodentia 1 (Mammalia). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 99 A:99-137 [ER 2444]
Geography
Country: Austria
Coordinate: 47° 4' N, 15° 7' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Early Miocene
Zone: MN4
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: "in the upper part of the section limiting the east quarry of the lignitie mine of Oberdorf to the north"; immediately east of Bårnbach according to Daxner-Höck et al. (1998) (coordinate based on Bårnbach)
"upper part of the Lower Miocene = MN4"
"upper part of the Lower Miocene = MN4"
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: "The fossiliferous beds (lignitic clays containing bones as well as wood, seeds and gastropods) are interpreted as paleosols"
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 273 specimens
Years: 1989
Sampling comments: collecting methods not discussed, but screenwashed according to Daxner-Höck et al. (1998)
amphibians including frogs, salamanders, and albanerpotontids are also present, but no carnivorans were found
amphibians including frogs, salamanders, and albanerpotontids are also present, but no carnivorans were found
Metadata
Sample number: 2693
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-03-13 08:17:52
Modified: 2017-03-12 21:17:52
Abundance distribution
15 species
3 singletons
total count 273
geometric series index: 21.4
Fisher's α: 3.414
geometric series k: 0.7326
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8465
Shannon's H: 2.1393
Good's u: 0.9890
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Register
| †Palaeosciurus sutteri | 27 | |
| †Spermophilinus besana | 78 | |
| "Spermophilinus besanus" | ||
| Ratufa sp. | 1 | |
| said to be new | ||
| Miopetaurista dehmi | 3 | |
| Blackia miocaenica | 36 | |
| †Neopetes hoeckarum | 4 | |
| "Hylopetes hoeckarum" | ||
| †Glis minor complicatus | 21 | |
| Seorsumuscardinus alpinus | 17 | |
| new | ||
| Glirudinus minutus | 13 | |
| †Glirulus (Glirulus) lissiensis | 44 | |
| Glirulus (Paraglirulus) sp. | 3 | |
| Peridyromys murinus | 4 | |
| †Microdyromys cf. legidensis | 1 | |
| †Bransatoglis fugax | 20 | |
| †Bransatoglis cf. astaracensis | 1 | |