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
Latlng 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)

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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

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

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

Metadata
Sample no: 2629

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-21 12:38:51

Modified: 2017-02-21 01:46:28

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
19 species
3 singletons
total count 518
geometric series index: 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
Register
Peratherium elegans 2
†Amphiperatherium minutum 8
Herpetotheriidae indet.1
Tetracus nanus 3
Nyctitheriidae indet.4
multiple fragments each of upper and lower teeth
Vespertilionoidea indet.1
†Palaeosciurus goti 1
Pseudoltinomys gaillardi 51
†Theridomys aquatilis 46
†Blainvillimys langei 227
Eucricetodon sp. 1 4
Eucricetodon sp. 2 7
†Eucricetodon atavus 80
†Glamys aff. olallensis 19
Butseloglis micio 52
†Bransatoglis cf. planus 4
Plagiolophus sp. 3
†Plesiomeryx cf. cadurcensis 2
Plesiomeryx sp. 3