Gračanica
Basic information
Sample name: Gračanica

Reference: D. Vasilyan. 2020. Fish, amphibian and reptilian assemblage from the middle Miocene locality Gracanica-Bugojno palaeolake, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:437-455 [ER 4062]
Geography
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina



Coordinate: 44.70° N, 18.31° E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: MN5/6

Max Ma: 15.2

Min Ma: 14

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: "Ongoing bio-magnetostratigraphic analyses currently indicate a slightly younger date, somewhere in the range between 15.2 and 14.0 Ma (pers. comm. O. Mandic)... For a final integrative biostratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic dating of the Gračanica section, see Mandic et al. (in prep., this issue)"

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "Fish, salamander and frog remains have been recovered from the upper limestone and marl dominated part of the Gračanica section (Bugojno palaeolake)"

Methods
Life forms: fishes,salamanders,frogs,other reptiles

Sample size: 51 specimens

Sampling comments: "All studied material is currently stored at the JURASSICA Museum (MJSN), Porrentruy, Switzerland and Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria"

Metadata
Sample number: 4470

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

Created: 2024-11-15 04:41:14

Modified: 2024-11-15 04:41:14

Abundance distribution
5 species
1 singleton
total count 51
geometric series index: 7.8
Fisher's α: 1.373
geometric series k: 0.4309
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5878
Shannon's H: 1.1253
Good's u: 0.9811
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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