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
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
extrapolated richness: 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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Current reference:
Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)