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

Time interval: Late Oligocene

Zone: MP28

Geography comments: "sur la butte de Cournon (Puy-de-Dôme, France)... á 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)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

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

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 197 specimens

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

Metadata
Sample number: 2559

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

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

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

Abundance distribution
18 species
3 singletons
total count 197
geometric series index: 26.9
Fisher's α: 4.820
geometric series k: 0.8127
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8811
Shannon's H: 2.3694
Good's u: 0.9849
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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