Kocayarma
Basic information
Sample name: Kocayarma

Reference: E. Unay-Bayraktar. 1989. Rodents from the Middle Oligocene of Turkish Thrace. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, Special Publication 5:1-119 [ER 2386]
Geography
Country: Turkey


Coordinate: 40° 51' N, 26° 38' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Lignite-Sandstone

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP25

Geography comments: "one hundred metres west of the main Kesan-Uzunkopru road and just west of the gravel quarry where the Kocayarma conglomerate is exploited for building purposes" (coordinate based on Kesan)
the entire formation was "deposited during some one to two million years" and "this fauna fits best in MP 25"

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "just below the Kocayarma conglomerate... a ± 30 em thick greenish to dark grey rather indurated clay that is rich in gastropods and leaf remains"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 1395 specimens

Sampling comments: "The mesh of the finest sieve used is 0.5 mm... The approximate weight of the matrix washed" was "2200 kg"
"The insectivores which occur associated with the rodents will not be dealt with in this paper"

Metadata
Sample number: 2568

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-17 15:05:09

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:59:51

Abundance distribution
15 species
2 singletons
total count 1395
extrapolated richness: 19.4
Fisher's α: 2.348
geometric series k: 0.6320
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6852
Shannon's H: 1.4924
Good's u: 0.9986
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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