Petersbuch 62
Basic information
Sample name: Petersbuch 62

Reference: V. V. Rosina and M. Rummel. 2012. The bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of Petersbuch (Bavaria, Southern Germany). Geobios 45:463-478 [ER 3904]
Geography
Country: Germany

State: Bavaria


Coordinate: 48.978657° N, 11.199542° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3

Geography comments: Petersbuch 62 is located in a stone quarry near the town of Petersbuch, Bavaria, Southern Germany
Petersbuch 62 is placed in MN 3 based on the presence of certain faunal elements

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: bird accumulation,fissure fill

Habitat comments: Petersbuch 62 is a karst fissure filling made of "light brown, dark brown, or reddish clayey loam" occasionally enriched with small iron ore concretions

Quality of preservation and presence of articulated remains indicates rapid deposition without reworking

Methods
Life forms: bats

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 406 specimens

Sampling comments: 406 bat specimens were recovered from Petersbuch 62

Examined material is mostly dentary and maxillary fragments

Metadata
Sample number: 4294

Contributor: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-06-05 15:54:57

Modified: 2023-09-06 07:20:40

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 406
geometric series index: 8.5
Fisher's α: 0.998
geometric series k: 0.3602
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6639
Shannon's H: 1.1627
Good's u: 0.9975
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Register
†Rhinolophus lemanensis165
Rhinolophus dehmi99
Megaderma franconica1
†Hanakia agadjaniani135
nov. sp.
Myotis aff. reductus2
Plecotus schoepfelii4
nov. sp