Faber Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Faber Quarry
Reference: N. Boulbes, S. Mayda, V. V. Titov, and M. C. Alçiçek. 2014. Les grands mammifères du Villafranchien supérieur des travertins du Bassin de Denizli (Sud-Ouest Anatolie, Turquie). L'anthropologie 118:44-73 [ER 3982]
Geography
Country: Turkey
Coordinate: 37.88° N, 29.36° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Max Ma: 1.6
Min Ma: 1.2
Age basis: other
Geography comments: from the Upper Travertine unit in the Denizli Basin
shown on a map by Rausch et al. (2019) as southwest of Belevi and north-northeast of Kocabas
a 26Al/10Be date of 1.6 to 1.2 Ma was obtained for the Faber Quarry sediments by Lebatard et al. (2014) and appears more reliable than earlier TL and ESR dates; see also Rausch et al. (2019)
shown on a map by Rausch et al. (2019) as southwest of Belevi and north-northeast of Kocabas
a 26Al/10Be date of 1.6 to 1.2 Ma was obtained for the Faber Quarry sediments by Lebatard et al. (2014) and appears more reliable than earlier TL and ESR dates; see also Rausch et al. (2019)
Environment
Lithology: limestone
Taphonomic context: lake deposit
Habitat comments: the Upper Travertine is a ca. 50 m thick limestone grading into a travertine at the top, which are "lacustrine and terrestrial limestone accumulations" in a "marshy environment" preserving mammals with "only minor transport" (Rausch et al. 2019)
Methods
Life forms: ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 22 specimens
Sampling comments: a specimen of Homo erectus from north of Kocabas appears to be from the same part of the section but may not be from Faber Quarry sensu stricto (see Rausch et al. 2019)
the "mammal remains are usually found ex situ, during the cutting process of large travertine blocks in the factories surrounding the quarries" (Rausch et al. 2019)
the "mammal remains are usually found ex situ, during the cutting process of large travertine blocks in the factories surrounding the quarries" (Rausch et al. 2019)
Metadata
Sample number: 4397
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-12-06 16:18:52
Modified: 2023-12-06 05:28:15
Abundance distribution
8 species
5 singletons
total count 22
geometric series index: 27.6
Fisher's α: 4.523
geometric series k: 0.7197
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7186
Shannon's H: 1.6425
Good's u: 0.7727
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Register
| †Mammuthus meridionalis meridionalis | 1 | |
| "Archidiskodon meridionalis meridionalis" | ||
| †Stephanorhinus cf. etruscus | 3 | |
| †Equus cf. apolloniensis | 1 | |
| valid, see Boulbes and van Asperen (2019) | ||
| †Equus cf. altidens | 10 | |
| †Metacervoceros rhenanus | 4 | |
| Cervalces (Libralces) ex gr. minor-gallicus | 1 | |
| Palaeotragus sp. | 1 | |
| Antilopini indet. | 1 | |
| "Gazella sp.": see Rausch et al. (2019); specimen apparently not reported by Boulbes et al. (2014) | ||