The Ecological Register: Karacali

Karacali

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Basic information

Sample name: Karacali

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° 57' N, 26° 38' E

Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Lignite-Sandstone

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP25

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "in a lignite quarry about 750 m. east of the village of Karacali" (= Karacaali, just north of Pasayigit) (coordinate based on Pasayigit)
presumably MP25 based on the age of Kocayarma
the entire formation was "deposited during some one to two million years"

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Environment

Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "a dark grey claystone about 30 em thick... exposed directly below the higher of the two lignite beds that are being quarried"

Methods

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 60 specimens

Sampling comments: "The mesh of the finest sieve used is 0.5 mm... The approximate weight of the matrix washed" was "1000 kg"
"The insectivores which occur associated with the rodents will not be dealt with in this paper"

Metadata

Sample number: 2569

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-17 15:06:56

Modified: 2023-09-08 12:00:11

Abundance distribution

5 species

2 singletons

total count 60

extrapolated richness: 8.9

Fisher's α: 1.297

geometric series k: 0.4387

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6407

Shannon's H: 1.1619

Good's u: 0.9667

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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Current reference: García-Alix et al. 2007 (ER 2360)