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, 24° 30' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Antonios

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN4/5

Ma: 17.0

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

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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

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

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

Metadata
Sample no: 2500

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

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

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

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
14 species
3 singletons
total count 230
geometric series index: 21.7
Fisher's α: 3.284
geometric series k: 0.728
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.818
Shannon's H: 1.9548
Good's u: 0.987
Register
Megadermatidea indet.2
cf
Schizogalerix sp. 23
Talpidae sp. 3
Paratalpa or Desmadon
Crocidosoricinae indet.8
cf
Microdyromys sp. 1
cf
Pliospalax sp. 1
†Spermophilinus besana 7
"Spermophilinus besanus"
†Palaeosciurus sutteri 5
Sayimys sp. 2
†Cricetodon meini 62
†Democricetodon franconicus 45
†Megacricetodon primitivus 52
†Alloptox anatoliensis 18
Prolagus sp. 1