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
Latlng 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

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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

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

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

Metadata
Sample no: 2499

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-12 20:10:34

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:42:55

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
16 species
1 singleton
total count 112
geometric series index: 23.3
Fisher's α: 5.108
geometric series k: 0.8247
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8353
Shannon's H: 2.242
Good's u: 0.9915
Register
†Asoriculus gibberodon 4
Deinsdorfia kerkhoffi 3
Soricidae indet.3
Leporidae indet.2
†Prolagus michauxi 36
†Pliopetaurista dehneli 7
†Myomimus maritsensis 3
Murinae indet.1
†Occitanomys adroveri 7
†Apodemus gorafensis 22
†Apodemus cf. dominans 4
†Rhagapodemus primaevus 2
†Micromys steffensi 2
†Mesocricetus primitivus 5
Pliospalax sp. 3
†Pseudomeriones cf. rhodius 8