Calta
Basic information
Sample name: Calta

Reference: S. Sen. 1977. First study of a Pliocene rodent fauna from Anatolia. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration 89:84-89 [ER 2363]
Geography
Country: Turkey

Coordinate: 40.25° N, 32.54° E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Zone: MN15

Geography comments: "NW of Ankara" (coordinate based on Calta)
"Upper Ruscinian" (i.e., MN15)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: mudstone

Taphonomic context: overbank deposit, paleosol

Habitat comments: from the Fm facies of Lunkka et al. (1998), which consists of "massive, often calcareous mudstones that are slightly silicified in places" including episodic "horizons with typical pedogenic features" that are interpreted "as overbank deposits laid down in a floodplain environment with moderate pedogenic alteration": the fossils are within a paleosol horizon (their Fig. 3)

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds

Sample size: 777 specimens

Museum: MNHN, Paris

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: collecting methods are not discussed
the total fauna also includes "two species of continental gastropods, three species of Amphibia, ten species of Reptilia" that are not described by Sen (1977, 1998) or accompanying 1998 publications on Calta
the material is in the MNHN, Paris

Metadata
Sample no: 2536

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 19:55:02

Modified: 2024-11-15 11:11:41

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
31 species
2 singletons
total count 777
geometric series index: 37.9
Fisher's α: 6.461
geometric series k: 0.8373
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8684
Shannon's H: 2.5737
Good's u: 0.9974
Register
†Centralomys magnus 20
"Castillomys n. sp.": Sen 1998
Occitanomys sp. 3
Euxinomys galaticus = †Orientalomys galaticus 7
new
†Apodemus dominans 4
†Mesocricetus cf. primitivus 16
†Pseudomeriones tchaltaensis 154
new, replaces "Pseudomeriones abbreviatus": Sen 1998
†Mimomys davakosi 23
"Mimomys gracilis": Sen 1998
†Pliospalax macoveii 41
includes Pliospalax compositodontus: Sen 1998
†Dryomimus eliomyoides 5
†Ochotonoma anatolica 206
new: Sen 1998
†Asoriculus gibberodon 29
†Mafia csarnotense 15
Soricidae indet.1
not the same as the two prceding
Erinaceus sp. 4
†Vulpes galaticus (fox)5
new
†Nyctereutes donnezani (raccoon dog)16
†Chasmaporthetes kani anatolicus (hyena)5
new subspecies
†Lynx issiodorensis (lynx)10
†Machairodus giganteus (saber-toothed cat)1
Dicerorhinus megarhinus = †Pliorhinus megarhinus (rhinoceros)6
Hipparion longipes = †Plesiohipparion cf. longipes (horse)10
Hipparion heintzi = †Proboscidipparion heintzi (horse)77
new: total is the authors' estimate
†Sus arvernensis (pig)11
†Cervus cf. perrieri (deer)2
†Giraffa cf. jumae (giraffe)32
†Gazella emilii (gazelle)34
new
†Tchaltacerus longicornis 9
new
Bovidae indet.6
compared closely to Koufotragus bailloudi
Gazellospira sp. 12
?
Hippotragini indet.5
Struthio sp. 8