Sarikol Tepe
Basic information
Sample name: Sarikol Tepe
Reference: D. S. Kostopoulos and S. Sen. 1999. Late Pliocene (Villafranchian) mammals from Sarikol Tepe, Ankara, Turkey. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Palåontologie und Historische Geologie 39:165-202 [ER 3878]
Geography
Country: Turkey
Coordinate: 40.24° N, 32.43° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Zone: MN17
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: "5.0 km northwest of Kazan town and 2.0 km north of Yassiören village, near the top of a small hill" (coordinate estimated based on Fig. 1)
from the "upper Sinap" Formation
from the "upper Sinap" Formation
Environment
Lithology: marl
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "apparently a terrassic deposit probably due to the neighbouring river... The matrix in the fossil locality is a sandy marl with root marks" and fossils "were apparently not carried much since angles of bones and teeth are still fresh"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 72 specimens
Years: 1972
Sampling comments: the material was "excavated" in July 1972 and "A few rodent teeth were also collected by washing-screening about 100 kg of sediment"
Metadata
Sample number: 4258
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-04-29 15:48:50
Modified: 2023-09-11 10:52:47
Abundance distribution
10 species
2 singletons
total count 72
geometric series index: 15.6
Fisher's α: 3.154
geometric series k: 0.6853
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7719
Shannon's H: 1.8428
Good's u: 0.9726
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Register
| Borsodia sp. | 7 | |
| †Eucyon cf. odessanus | 1 | |
| species recognised as valid by Rook (2009) | ||
| †Pliocrocuta perrieri arambourgi | 7 | |
| Homotherium sp. | 3 | |
| †Equus stenonis | 30 | |
| †Paracamelus cf. alutensis | 9 | |
| Pliotragus sp. | 6 | |
| compared to | ||
| †Gazellospira torticornis | 2 | |
| Gazella sp. | 6 | |
| compared to borbonica, emilii, and bouvrainae, all of which appear to belong to this genus | ||
| Bovidae indet. | 1 | |
| different taxon | ||