Mazan
Basic information
Sample name: Mazan

Sample aka: Malemort-du-Comtat

Reference: O. Maridet, M. Hugueney, and L. Costeur. 2013. The mammalian assemblage of Mazan (Vaucluse, France) and its position in the Early Oligocene European palaeobiogeography. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 106:231-252 [ER 2415]
Geography
Country: France



Coordinate: 44° 1' N, 5° 10' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP21

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "in the municipality of Malemort-du-Comtat" but "the nearest town" is Mazan (coordinate based on Malemort-du-Comtat)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "brown clay with reworked limestone blocks" also described as "brown–black, clayish paleosol layers"

Methods
Life forms: bats,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sample size: 518 specimens

Sampling comments: "tortoise carapaces, crocodile teeth and squamate vertebrae and maxillary fragments were also found" but are not described
collection methods are not discussed
59 indeterminate Cainotheriidae specimens might belong to either Plesiomeryx species or to something else

Metadata
Sample number: 2629

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-21 12:38:51

Modified: 2017-02-21 01:46:28

Abundance distribution
19 species
3 singletons
total count 518
geometric series index: 28.1
Fisher's α: 3.875
geometric series k: 0.7398
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7539
Shannon's H: 1.8491
Good's u: 0.9942
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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