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, 37° 56' E
Latlng 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

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 4000

Basal area status: not applicable

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 no: 2561

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

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

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

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
1 singleton
total count 209
geometric series index: 14.0
Fisher's α: 2.188
geometric series k: 0.6766
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6398
Shannon's H: 1.3339
Good's u: 0.9952
Register
Neurogymnurus sp. 3
cf
†Galerix cf. saratji 14
Soricidae indet.4
Microdyromys sp. 3
Glirulus (Paraglirulus) sp. 3
Meteamys alpani 72
new
Muhsinia steffensi 101
new
Cricetodon sp. 3
cf: said to be new
Spanocricetodon sp. 5
cf: said to be new
Allactaginae indet.1