Corakyerler
Basic information
Sample name: Corakyerler

Reference: E. Unay, H. de Bruijn, and F. Suata-Alpaslan. 2006. Rodents from the Upper Miocene Hominoid Locality Corakyerler (Anatolia). Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30:453-467 [ER 2358]
Geography
Country: Turkey

Coordinate: 41° 37' 0" N, 34° 38' 10" E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Formation: Tuglu

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN11

Max Ma: 8.11

Min Ma: 7.64

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: exact coordinate is given by Geraads (2013)
"we tentatively suggest a correlation with MN11"; confirmed as MN11 and dated at 8.11 to 7.64 Ma based on magnetostratigraphy by Kaya et al. (2016), although Geraads (2013) favours an MN12 assignment

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: "fossiliferous nodular marl" and according to Geraads (2013) "pale-green mottled marl that forms the lower part of a thick succession of continental red beds interfingering with shallow lake deposits"
"from deposits of a large complex of mud flats, probably representing the distal portion of a large alluvial fan-floodplain interfingering with shallow, ephemeral lakes" (Gulec et al. 2007)

Methods
Life forms: primates, rodents, ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 208 specimens

Years: 1992, 2001, 2002

Museum: Cankiri Museum

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 10000

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "ob­tained by washing the sediments (± 10 tons) from which the large mammals were collected during the field seasons of 2001-2002... Lagomorpha are absent and the Insectivora are represented by one soricid ml only"
large mammals were collected by "excavations" starting in 1992 and ending in 2001 (Geraads 2013)
Geraads (2013) does not mention carnivores, but Gulec et al. (2007) list Mustelidae indet.

Metadata
Sample no: 2529

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 14:38:49

Modified: 2025-08-27 11:22:01

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
32 species
11 singletons
total count 208
geometric series index: 64.3
Fisher's α: 10.562
geometric series k: 0.874
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8689
Shannon's H: 2.6625
Good's u: 0.9473
Register
Hansdebruijnia erksinae 65
new
Hansdebruijnia cf. neutrum 2
†Byzantinia pikermiensis 8
†Byzantinia aff. hellenicus 6
Rhinocerodon sp. 2
cf this genus; 2 is a minimum
†Allocricetus aylasevimae 8
new
Muridae indet.1
†Pseudomeriones latidens 15
Pliospalax sp. 1
cf
†Protalactaga aff. major 4
Myomimus sp. 2
Keramidomys sp. 1
†Ouranopithecus turkae 3
type described by Gulec et al. (2007)
†Choerolophodon pentelici 3
Acerorhinus sp. 7
questionably referred by comparison to A. zernowi: "several" skulls plus "mandibles" and "post-crania" (minimum 7)
Ceratotherium neumayri = †Miodiceros neumayri (rhinoceros)3
"some" specimens including 2 that are described, so at least 3
†Hipparion cf. prostylum (horse)17
skull, 13 postcrania, and "some lower tooth-rows", of which 2 are described, so at least 17
Hipparionini indet.2
"Hipparion" in quotes
Microstonyx major = †Hippopotamodon major (pig)6
2 skulls and "several other specimens" including 4 measured m3s shown in Fig. 3, so possibly 6
Pliocervus sp. 1
†Bohlinia cf. attica 4
a metacarpal and probably "Some other limb bones", so at least 4
†Palaeotragus cf. rouenii 1
†Palaeotragus cf. quadricornis 1
Miotragocerus (Pikermicerus) sp. 1
Tragoportax sp. 1
questionably
Prostrepsiceros sp. 1
compared to
Criotherium sp. 1
questionably
†Majoreas cf. woodwardi 17
"Numerous": more specimens than Oiceros rothi, so at least 17
Gazella sp. 1
questionably
†Oioceros rothi 16
"common": measurements of 16 horn-cores are shown in Fig. 5
Protoryx sp. 4
a horn core and "a few dental remains", so at least 4
†Plesiaddax inundatus 3