Kessani
Basic information
Sample name: Kessani
Sample aka: KES
Reference: K. Vasileiadou, G. Konidaris, and G. D. Koufos. 2012. New data on the micromammalian locality of Kessani (Thrace, Greece) at the Mio-Pliocene boundary. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 92:211-237 [ER 2338]
Geography
Country: Greece
Coordinate: 41.03° N, 25.07° E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Miocene
Zone: MN13
Ma: 5.3
Geography comments: "on the south-western coast of Lake Vistonis" (coordinate based on Nea Kessani)
"best correlated with the latest Turolian/earliest Ruscinian (MN 13/14 boundary" but indicated in Fig. 15 as being just below the boundary
"best correlated with the latest Turolian/earliest Ruscinian (MN 13/14 boundary" but indicated in Fig. 15 as being just below the boundary
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: "an argillaceous bed at the upper part of the section"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals
Sample size: 112 specimens
Years: 1997
Sampling comments: "The micromammalian material was collected from two different spots of the fossiliferous layer (named KES-1 and KES-2), but later a few more teeth were collected from a third spot (KES-3). These three different spots have a distance of about 2–3 m between them"
collection methods not discussed
collection methods not discussed
Metadata
Sample number: 2499
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-12 20:10:34
Modified: 2017-02-17 02:42:55
Abundance distribution
16 species
1 singleton
total count 112
extrapolated richness: 23.3
Fisher's α: 5.108
geometric series k: 0.7875
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8353
Shannon's H: 2.2420
Good's u: 0.9915
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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