Inkonak M.R. 6
Basic information
Sample name: Inkonak M.R. 6

Reference: H. de Bruijn, E. Unay, L. van den Hoek Ostende, and G. Sarac. 1992. A new association of small mammals from the lowermost Lower Miocene of central Anatolia. Geobios 25(5):651-670 [ER 2382]
Geography
Country: Turkey


Coordinate: 39° 16' N, 36° 56' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Cevizcik

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN1/2

Geography comments: "along the Sivas-Kangal main road near the village of Inkonak 50 km south of Sivas" (apparently meaning near Ulas, basis of coordinate)
"in the Dokmetas member of the Cevizcik Formation... we tentatively assign it an earliest Early Miocene age" and approximately "MN 1 or 2"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "buff to white coloured fluviatile and lacustrine deposits"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sample size: 209 specimens

Sampling comments: collected "from about four tons of clay"
collecting methods not discussed, but all the fossils appear to be isolated cheek teeth, so sieving was presumably used

Metadata
Sample number: 2561

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-16 13:53:12

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:59:03

Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 209
extrapolated richness: 14.0
Fisher's α: 2.188
geometric series k: 0.5988
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6398
Shannon's H: 1.3339
Good's u: 0.9952
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Register
Neurogymnurus sp.3
cf
Galerix cf. saratji14
Soricidae indet.4
Microdyromys sp.3
Glirulus (Paraglirulus) sp.3
Meteamys alpani72
new
Muhsinia steffensi101
new
Cricetodon sp.3
cf: said to be new
Spanocricetodon sp.5
cf: said to be new
Allactaginae indet.1