Mala Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Mala Cave
Sample aka: Jaskinia Mala
Reference: A. Sulimski, A. Szynkiewicz, and B. Woloszyn. 1979. The Middle Pliocene micromammals from Central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 24(3):1-29 [ER 3903]
Geography
Country: Poland
State: Lodz
County: Pajeczno
Coordinate: 51.098602° N, 18.792337° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Early Pliocene
Max Ma: 5.3
Min Ma: 3.6
Age basis: other
Geography comments: Mala Cave is located on Zelce Hill in Central Poland near the town of Dzialoszyn
Member 4/5
No precise dates are provided. It is vaguely indicated that the site is dated through affinities with two other sites at Zelce Hill, as well as faunal analogs with other Early-Middle Pliocene sites in Europe
Member 4/5
No precise dates are provided. It is vaguely indicated that the site is dated through affinities with two other sites at Zelce Hill, as well as faunal analogs with other Early-Middle Pliocene sites in Europe
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: All material was recovered from Members 4/5 of Mala Cave
Member 4 - "reddish sands", occasionally cemented by "calcite containing black nodules of "Bohnerze"
Member 5 - "red clays"
Summary taphonomy information is not provided
Member 4 - "reddish sands", occasionally cemented by "calcite containing black nodules of "Bohnerze"
Member 5 - "red clays"
Summary taphonomy information is not provided
Methods
Life forms: bats, rodents, other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 251 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: Faunal remains of 18 species were recovered from Mala Cave
Specimens described are housed in the Paleozoological Laboratory of Wroclaw University
Counts excluded:
Sorex sp. - 4
Rhinolophus sp. - 22
Specimens described are housed in the Paleozoological Laboratory of Wroclaw University
Counts excluded:
Sorex sp. - 4
Rhinolophus sp. - 22
Metadata
Sample no: 4292
Contributor no: Jack Nesbitt
Enterer: Jack Nesbitt
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2023-06-05 13:12:46
Modified: 2024-12-10 05:18:44
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
15 species
2 singletons
total count 251
geometric series index: 20.2
Fisher's α: 3.499
geometric series k: 0.7197
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7998
Shannon's H: 2.0754
Good's u: 0.9921
Register
| †Sorex cf. dehneli | 2 | |
| †Petenyia hungarica | 7 | |
| Petenyia gracilis | 1 | |
| †Amblycoptus topali | 2 | |
| Rhinolophus cf. delphinensis | 24 | |
| Rhinolophus cf. neglectus | 18 | |
| Rhinolophus cf. variabilis | 19 | |
| Myotis podlesicensis | 12 | |
| Myotis bechsteinii | 8 | 8.5 g |
| Myotis nattereri | 1 | 6.4 g |
| Microtinae indet. | 12 | |
| Epimeriones austriacus | 9 | |
| †Muscardinus pliocaenicus | 9 | |
| †Glis minor | 100 | |
| †Parapodemus lugdunensis | 27 | |