Menacer
Basic information
Sample name: Menacer
Sample aka: Marceau
Reference: H. Thomas and G. Petter. 1986. Révision de la faune de mammifères du Miocéne supérieur de Menacer (ex-Marceau), Algérie: discussion sur l'âge du gisement. Geobios 19(3):357-373 [ER 4012]
Geography
Country: Algeria
Coordinate: 36.49° N, 2.22° E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Miocene
Zone: MN13
Geography comments: said to be 60 km WSW of Alger (= Algiers), but apparently the same as Menaceur (basis of coordinate), which is farther than that in the same direction
correlated by Arambourg (1959) with the Vallesian Bou Hanifa fauna, but actually Turolian and "précisément turolien supérieur" (= MN13)
correlated by Arambourg (1959) with the Vallesian Bou Hanifa fauna, but actually Turolian and "précisément turolien supérieur" (= MN13)
Environment
Lithology: lignite
Habitat comments: from within a mostly continental sandstone interval that includes lacustrine limestones and fossiliferous lignites
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates
Sample size: 71 specimens
Sampling comments: originally collected by Flandrin and described by Arambourg (1959): this is a revision of the same material
collection methods are not discussed
collection methods are not discussed
Metadata
Sample number: 4427
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-05 10:47:39
Modified: 2024-11-05 10:47:39
Abundance distribution
13 species
4 singletons
total count 71
geometric series index: 25.5
Fisher's α: 4.666
geometric series k: 0.7511
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7632
Shannon's H: 1.9272
Good's u: 0.9445
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Register
| Macaca sp. | 31 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| †Colobus ? flandrini | 9 | |
| †Dinocrocuta algeriensis | 1 | |
| "Allohyaena (Dinocrocuta) algeriensis" | ||
| †Indarctos aff. arctoides | 4 | |
| †Zygolophodon cf. turicensis | 1 | |
| †Hippotherium primigenium | 3 | |
| "Hipparion primigenium" | ||
| Rhinocerotidae indet. | 2 | |
| Nyanzachoerus sp. | 1 | |
| compared to | ||
| †Palaeotragus germaini | 3 | |
| Trigocerina indet. | 8 | |
| tribe includes Tragocerus and Miotragocerus | ||
| Neotragini indet. | 2 | |
| Bovidae indet. | 1 | |
| not the same as the preceding | ||
| Hystrix sp. | 5 | |