Mordogan
Basic information
Sample name: Mordogan
Sample aka: Ardic
Reference: T. Kaya, D. Geraads, and V. Tuna. 2003. A new Middle Miocene mammalian fauna from Mordogan (Western Turkey). Paläeontologische Zeitschrift 77(2):293-302 [ER 4401]
Geography
Country: Turkey
Coordinate: 39° 32' 42" N, 27° 38' 30" E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Scale: quarry
Formation: Ardic
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: MN5
Geography comments: "at the locality Ardic... exposed in a steep cliff about 20 m above the sea"
latitude is given as 28º N, but this is certainly actually 26º N
from the uppermost Ardic Formation
shown in Fig. 7 as straddling the MN5 - MN6 boundary, but also said to be from "the same mammalian zone" as a series of MN5 localities
latitude is given as 28º N, but this is certainly actually 26º N
from the uppermost Ardic Formation
shown in Fig. 7 as straddling the MN5 - MN6 boundary, but also said to be from "the same mammalian zone" as a series of MN5 localities
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "deposited by a fluvial system, consists of brown-gray, thick to massively bedded lithic to volcanoclastic sandstone and conglomerate... The unit exhibits a general fining upwards" so the lithology is more likely sandstone than conglomerate
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 31 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "discovered by Neset Öztekin in 1997 and has been subject to small-scale excavations since then"
Metadata
Sample no: 4678
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2025-08-26 04:45:39
Modified: 2025-08-26 05:16:56
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
4 singletons
total count 31
geometric series index: 29.0
Fisher's α: 7.182
geometric series k: 0.8189
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8548
Shannon's H: 2.2257
Good's u: 0.879
Register
| †Ischyrictis cf. anatolicus | 1 | |
| Carnivora indet. | 1 | |
| a larger mustelid | ||
| †Percrocuta miocenica | 2 | |
| †Protictitherium intermedium paralium (hyena) | 1 | |
| new subspecies | ||
| Protanancus sp. | 4 | |
| compared to | ||
| Beliajevina sp. | 3 | |
| "a few tooth fragments" | ||
| †Listriodon splendens | 2 | |
| Giraffokeryx sp. | 2 | |
| Micromeryx sp. | 2 | |
| Turcocerus sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Tethytragus sp. | 3 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| †Hypsodontus pronaticornis | 9 | |
| three horn-cores, three astragali, and three m3s, but an unclear number of "bovid teeth" are present | ||