Karacali
Basic information
Sample name: Karacali

Reference: E. Unay-Bayraktar. 1989. Rodents from the Middle Oligocene of Turkish Thrace. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins, Special Publication 5:1-119 [ER 2386]
Geography
Country: Turkey

Coordinate: 41° 57' N, 27° 38' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Lignite-Sandstone

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP25

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "in a lignite quarry about 750 m. east of the village of Karacali" (= Karacaali, just north of Pasayigit) (coordinate based on Pasayigit)
presumably MP25 based on the age of Kocayarma
the entire formation was "deposited during some one to two million years"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "a dark grey claystone about 30 em thick... exposed directly below the higher of the two lignite beds that are being quarried"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Excluded forms: other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 60 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 1000

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The mesh of the finest sieve used is 0.5 mm... The approximate weight of the matrix washed" was "1000 kg"
"The insectivores which occur associated with the rodents will not be dealt with in this paper"

Metadata
Sample no: 2569

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-17 15:06:56

Modified: 2023-09-08 12:00:11

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
5 species
2 singletons
total count 60
geometric series index: 8.9
Fisher's α: 1.297
geometric series k: 0.4387
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6407
Shannon's H: 1.1619
Good's u: 0.9667
Register
Trakymys aff. saratji 21
†Pseudocricetodon moguntiacus 10
cf subspecies orientalis
Kerosinia variabilis 27
Eomys cf. sp. A 1
†Bransatoglis sjeni 1