Rivoli Veronese
Basic information
Sample name: Rivoli Veronese

Reference: C. Berto, E. Luzi, M. Marchetti, A. Pereswiet-Soltan, and B. Sala. 2022. Faunal renewals during the Early Pleistocene on the northern Italian Peninsula: Climate and environment reconstructions inferred from the Rivoli Veronese small mammal assemblage (Adige River valley, Verona, Italy). Quaternary International 633:134-153 [ER 3881]
Geography
Country: Italy

State: Verona

Coordinate: 45.559601° N, 10.8277° E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Formation: Calcari Grigi

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Zone: MN17

Geography comments: Located in an abandoned limestone quarry "at the top of the western slope of the Adige River valley, 18 km NW from Verona (Italy)"

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Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fissure fill

Habitat comments: "The fissure's infilling consists of mostly cemented sediments that are chaotically arranged and composed of large blocks, smaller limestone clasts, and fluviatile quartz gravels, sands, and muds"

The authors concluded that the fissure infilling was a "rapid and unique event" based on the lack of a stratified sequence as well as coherent fauna

Small mammal remains consist of teeth and disarticulated bone fragments

Methods
Life forms: bats, rodents, other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 872 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: Water screening used 1 and 0.5 mm mesh sieves


Metadata
Sample no: 4261

Contributor no: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-05-10 16:24:42

Modified: 2023-05-10 06:24:42

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
27 species
4 singletons
total count 872
geometric series index: 37.6
Fisher's α: 5.281
geometric series k: 0.8054
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8442
Shannon's H: 2.323
Good's u: 0.9954
Register
Myotis sp. 1
Barbastella sp. 1
compared to
Erinaceus sp. 2
†Crocidura kornfeldi 2
Sorex cf. minutus 2
†Sorex cf. praealpinus 3
†Sorex (Drepanosorex) praearaneus 7
Sorex sp. 6
†Petenyia hungarica 6
†Beremendia fissidens 12
†Asoriculus gibberodon 66
†Talpa cf. fossilis 13
†Talpa minor 33
Talpa sp. 12
new
†Pliopetaurista cf. pliocaenica 1
Sciuridae indet.12
Dinaromys allegranzii 123
Ungaromys dehmi 39
Villanyia cf. exilis 6
†Mimomys pliocaenicus 38
†Mimomys tornensis 42
†Mimomys pitymyoides 278
Mimomys sp. 41
†Apodemus atavus 115
†Rhagapodemus cf. frequens 1
†Glis cf. minor 8
Muscardinus sp. 2