Süngülü
Basic information
Sample name: Süngülü
Reference: H. de Bruijn, E. Unay, G. Sarac, and A. Yilmaz. 2003. A rodent assemblage from the Eo/Oligocene boundary interval near Süngülü, Lesser Caucasus, Turkey. Coloquios de Paleontología Vol. Ext. :47-76 [ER 2388]
Geography
Country: Turkey
Coordinate: 41° 28' N, 42° 52' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Eocene
Zone: MP19
Ma: 34.5
Geography comments: "about two kilometres north east of the village of Süngülü" (coordinate based on Süngülü)
"Latest Eocene or Earliest Oligocene" but the "presence of an indeterminate glyptosaure... seems to be in favour a Late Eocene Age" (i.e., MP19 or about 34.5 Ma based on the time scale of Walliser et al. 2016)
"Latest Eocene or Earliest Oligocene" but the "presence of an indeterminate glyptosaure... seems to be in favour a Late Eocene Age" (i.e., MP19 or about 34.5 Ma based on the time scale of Walliser et al. 2016)
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: limestone
Habitat comments: "near the top of a ± 45 m thick section of fluvio-lacustrine deposits... The mammal remains have been collected from two subsequent beds: A ± 40 cm thick tuffite with operculae of gastropods, and the overlying ± 30 cm of white silty limestone with silicified nodules" (most specimens are from the third of three point samples, which is from the upper level)
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 679 specimens
Years: 1996
Sampling comments: collected by "screenwashing"
additional taxa are not discussed
additional taxa are not discussed
Metadata
Sample number: 2574
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-17 16:22:56
Modified: 2017-02-17 05:23:40
Abundance distribution
11 species
1 singleton
total count 679
geometric series index: 12.7
Fisher's α: 1.864
geometric series k: 0.5741
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7763
Shannon's H: 1.7966
Good's u: 0.9985
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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