Kapsomin
Basic information
Sample name: Kapsomin

Reference: P. Mein and M. Pickford. 2006. Late Miocene micromammals from the Lukeino Formation (6.1 to 5.8 Ma), Kenya. Bulletin mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 75(4):183-223 [ER 2337]
Geography
Country: Kenya


Coordinate: 0° 52' 30" N, 35° 54' 30" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Formation: Lukeino

Time interval: Late Miocene

Ma: 5.95

Geography comments: "eastern foothills of the Tugen Hills... The deposits range in age from 6.1 to 5.8 Ma"
coordinate based on Pickford (1975)
most material is apparently from "sands" in Member B (Pickford 1975)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

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

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 824 specimens

Sampling comments: "wet screening"
a few additional specimens from Aragai and Kapcheberek are listed

Metadata
Sample number: 2498

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-12 18:16:54

Modified: 2017-02-12 07:21:32

Abundance distribution
26 species
9 singletons
total count 824
extrapolated richness: 47.1
Fisher's α: 5.109
geometric series k: 0.7935
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7697
Shannon's H: 1.8699
Good's u: 0.9891
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Register
Galagidae indet.1
Erinaceidae indet.2
Crocidura kapsominensis7
sp. nov.
Suncus sp.4
Elephantulus sp.6
Rousettus sp.1
questionably referred
Chamtwaria sp.1
Myotis sp.1
cf this genus
Vespertilionidae indet.1
Taphozous sp.1
questionably referred
Serengetilagus sp.22
Pedetidae indet.1
Apodecter aequatorialis144
sp. nov.
Hystrix sp. 11
Hystrix sp. 21
Petromus sp.4
Abudhabia tateroides114
sp. nov.
Saccostomus cf. geraadsi16
Steatomys minus21
Steatomys cf. intermedius7
Dendromus sp.3
new
Preacomys cf. griffini3
Preacomus cf. kikiae9
Lukeinomys cheptumoae124
gen. et sp. nov.
Saidomys alisae325
sp. nov.
Muridae indet.4