Cournon-Les Souméroux
Basic information
Sample name: Cournon-Les Souméroux

Reference: M. Brunet, M. Hugueney, and Y. Jehenne. 1981. Cournon-Les Souméroux: un nouveau site a vertébrés d'Auvergne, sa place parmi les faunes de l'Oligocène supérieur d'Europe. Geobios 14(3):323-359 [ER 2380]
Geography
Country: France

Coordinate: 46° 45' N, 3° 12' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Late Oligocene

Zone: MP28

Geography comments: "sur la butte de Cournon (Puy-de-Dôme, France)... à environ 200 m au N-NW de la 9rande carrière de Cournon" (coordinate based on Cournon-d'Auvergne)
"Oligocène supérieur... un niveau faunique intermédiare entre ceux de Boningen et La Milloque" (i.e., in between MP27 and MP29, so approximately MP28)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "un niveau décimétrique de marnes verdâtres intercalées dans des calcaires aroileux beiges à la base et blancs au sommet"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 197 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 1000

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "lavage-tamisage... d'environ une tonne de sédiments"

Metadata
Sample no: 2559

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-16 12:18:56

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:58:22

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
18 species
3 singletons
total count 197
geometric series index: 26.9
Fisher's α: 4.82
geometric series k: 0.8127
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8811
Shannon's H: 2.3694
Good's u: 0.9849
Register
Peratherium antiquum 1
Amphechinus arvernensis 3
Dimylidae indet.1
questionably referred
Oligosorex sp. 16
Dinosorex sp. 4
Geotrypus sp. 1
Paratalpa micheli 20
†Archaeomys laurillardi 4
†Eucricetodon dubius 33
†Pseudocricetodon aff. thaleri 8
†Plesiosminthus promyarion 34
†Eomys zitteli 3
†Pseudotheridomys schaubi 34
Glirudinus glirulus 16
†Peridyromys murinus 3
Tayassuidae indet.2
Cainotheriidae indet.12
Dremotherium sp. 2