Keseköy
Basic information
Sample name: Keseköy

Reference: D. Vasilyan, Z. Rocek, A. Ayvazyan, and L. Claessens. 2019. Fish, amphibian and reptilian faunas from latest Oligocene to middle Miocene localities from Central Turkey. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 99(6):723-757 [ER 4050]
Geography
Country: Turkey

State: Corum



Coordinate: 40.42° N, 32.69° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Oligocene

Zone: MP30

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Habitat comments: "from green-brown, partly laminated clays and marly clays"
"Keseköy a lacustrine environment is characteristic"

Methods
Life forms: fishes,frogs,lizards,snakes

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 534 specimens

Museum: University Utrecht

Sampling comments: "The studied fossil material has been collected from the fossiliferous horizons by screen washing of the sediment samples and picking the sediment residue. The described material is temporarily stored in the palaeontological collection of the University Utrecht (UU) and will be returned to the General directorate of mineral research and exploration (MTA) in Ankara"

Metadata
Sample number: 4476

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-15 20:36:34

Modified: 2024-11-16 22:52:15

Abundance distribution
11 species
3 singletons
total count 534
geometric series index: 16.2
Fisher's α: 1.960
geometric series k: 0.5908
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7425
Shannon's H: 1.5754
Good's u: 0.9944
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Register
Barbini indet.116
Cyprinidae indet.17
Teleostei indet.145
Pelobatidae indet.1
Bufonidae indet.1
? Pseudepidalea sp.
Latonia sp.193
Palaeobatrachidae indet.6
Lacertidae indet. 125
Lacertidae indet. 224
Lacertidae indet. 35
Serpentes indet.1