La Retama
Basic information
Sample name: La Retama

Reference: M. A. Alvarez Sierra, I. García Paredes, L. van den Hoek Ostende, A. J. van der Meulen, P. Peláez-Campomanes, and P. Sevilla. 2006. The Middle Aragonian (Middle Miocene) micromammals from La Retama (Intermediate Depression, Tagus Basin) Province of Cuenca, Spain. Estudios Geológicos 62(1):401-428 [ER 2355]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Cuenca

Coordinate: 40° 5' N, 3° 41' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: MN5

Ma: 15.5

Geography comments: "in a crop field next to Loranca del Campo" (coordinate based on Loranca del Campo)
"zone Db (early MN5)" (i.e., about 15.5 Ma)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "silt-marls with carbonate concretions and vegetal remains... deltaic facies from a small fan delta"

Methods
Life forms: bats, rodents, other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 2176 specimens

Years: 1988, 1989

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 1200

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Some 1.200 kg of sediment from La Retama were screened"

Metadata
Sample no: 2525

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 13:02:40

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:47:59

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
17 species
3 singletons
total count 2176
geometric series index: 23.6
Fisher's α: 2.513
geometric series k: 0.6537
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7302
Shannon's H: 1.5585
Good's u: 0.9986
Register
†Heteroxerus rubricati 900
†Heteroxerus grivensis 12
Armantomys aragonensis 313
Armantomys jasperi 2
Pseudodryomys ibericus 7
Pseudodryomys simplicidens 519
†Microdyromys koenigswaldi 1
†Democricetodon decipiens 44
†Megacricetodon primitivus 310
Megacricetodon sp. 30
said to be new
†Galerix cf. symeonidisi 8
Soricidae indet.1
Hipposideros (Brachipposideros) collongensis 7
Hipposideros (Pseudorhinolophus) sp. 88.3 g
Asellia mariaetheresae 11
Myotis sp. 2
Tadarida sp. 1