Antonios
Basic information
Sample name: Antonios

Reference: K. Vasileiadou and G. D. Koufos. 2005. The micromammals from the Early/Middle Miocene locality of Antonios, Chalkidiki, Greece. Annales de Paleontologie 91:197-225 [ER 2339]
Geography
Country: Greece


Coordinate: 40° 20' N, 23° 30' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Antonios

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN4/5

Ma: 17

Geography comments: "about 26 km southeast of Thessaloniki on the Chalkidiki peninsula" (coordinate based on Chalkidiki)
"correlated with the MN 4–MN 5 boundary interval" and therefore Burdigalian; indicated in Fig. 7 as being just about 17 Ma

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "in karstic fissures... These deposits, belonging to the Antonios Formation, consist of coarse, clastic sediments (gravels, pebbles, sands) and more fine-grained, red–brown, silty-clay" (material presumably from the clay based on use of screenwashing)

Methods
Life forms: bats,rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 230 specimens

Sampling comments: "The matrix sampled has been screen-washed, through sieves of mesh size 0.5 mm"

Metadata
Sample number: 2500

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-12 20:21:18

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:43:22

Abundance distribution
14 species
3 singletons
total count 230
extrapolated richness: 21.7
Fisher's α: 3.284
geometric series k: 0.7280
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8180
Shannon's H: 1.9548
Good's u: 0.9870
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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