Paragovo
Basic information
Sample name: Paragovo

Reference: A. A. van de Weerd, H. de Bruijn, W. Wessels, and Z. Markovic. 2022. New late Oligocene rodent faunas from the Pannonian basin. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 102:465-492 [ER 3964]
Geography
Country: Serbia

Coordinate: 45° 11' 40" N, 20° 51' 42" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Oligocene

Ma: 24.0

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "in the Fruska Gora National Park, south of the town of Novi Sad... about 550 m west of road 21 near the Park office"
dated at approximately 24 Ma and approximately MP29 or MP30 in Fig. 17, but the Mein zone assignment per se is nowhere discussed

Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: from a "clay bed" that is "dark brown-greenish in colour" and "fluviatile"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Excluded forms: other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 54 specimens

Years: 2009, 2016

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 4800

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the site was discovered in 2009 but "a large sample of ~ 2000 kg" was taken "in the summer of 2016" and "was washed and wet-screened in the field on a set of (fixed) sieves", and then "a large sample of about 2800 kg was taken in 2017" but was not as fossiliferous
a lagomorph is present but not described

Metadata
Sample no: 4375

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-09-13 16:29:21

Modified: 2023-09-13 06:29:21

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
7 species
0 singleton
total count 54
geometric series index: 8.5
Fisher's α: 2.144
geometric series k: 0.7857
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7966
Shannon's H: 1.7655
Good's u: 1
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