Canlong
Basic information
Sample name: Canlong

Sample aka: Matelles

Reference: J.-Y. Crochet, J.-L. Hartenberger, J.-A. Remy, J. Sudre, and J.-L. Welcomme. 1997. Découverte de vertébrés continenteaux de l'Eocène moyen et supérieur dans le bassin des Matelles (Hérault, Sud de la France) et redécouverte du "Lophiodon des Matelles". Géologie de la France 1:35-46 [ER 4014]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 43° 44' N, 3° 49' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Eocene

Zone: MP14

Geography comments: there is no French place called Canlong, but the site is in the Matelles basin about 20 km north of Montpellier (coordinate based on Les Matelles)
assigned to MP14 based on biochronology, which the authors mistakenly think is Late Eocene

Environment
Lithology: limestone

Habitat comments: from "un niveau détritique consolidé composé presque exclusivement de débris carbonatés" which is clearly reworked and marine because it includes rolled oncolithes, orbitoline forams, and shark teeth
the palaeoenvironment of actual deposition is not discussed

Methods
Life forms: primates,rodents,ungulates

Sample size: 24 specimens

Sampling comments: the fossils were extracted with acid dissolution and screenwashed

Metadata
Sample number: 4428

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-05 21:52:25

Modified: 2024-11-05 21:52:25

Abundance distribution
9 species
3 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 19.8
Fisher's α: 5.230
geometric series k: 0.7993
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8442
Shannon's H: 2.0293
Good's u: 0.8785
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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