Monte Argentario
Basic information
Sample name: Monte Argentario

Reference: M. S. Siori, A. Boero, G. Carnevale, S. Colombero, M. Delfino, R. Sardella, and M. Pavia. 2014. New data on Early Pleistocene vertebrates from Monte Argentario (Central Italy). Paleoecological and biochronological implications. Geobios 47:403-418 [ER 3911]
Geography
Country: Italy

State: Grosseto

County: Monte Argentario

Coordinate: 42.403854° N, 11.162609° E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Miniera della Polveriera

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 1.7

Min Ma: 1.3

Age basis: other

Geography comments: The Monte Argentario site is located on the "eastern slope of the Monte Argentario", a peninsula in the Province of Grosseto, Tuscany

Given coordinates are NOT exact, they are estimated based on the center of the Monte Argentario peninsular as no precise location was provided

The faunal composition of Monte Argentario likely places it in the Early Biharian, and can be referred to the Farneta and Pirro Faunal Units of Italy

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Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fissure fill

Habitat comments: The Monte Argentario site is made up of a "succession of conglomerate layers with centimetric clasts and red clay-sand layers, both strongly cemented"

The locality is a fissure filling within a limestone quarry on the eastern slope of the Monte Argentario

The faunal assemblage was found in a clay-sand layer

There is very little taphonomic information provided

There is no information provided on the accumulation

Methods
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, frogs

Excluded forms: carnivores, rodents, other small mammals, birds, turtles

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 181 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: Vertebrate remains were extracted from the cemented clay-sand sediment via acetic acid

The uncounted life forms are cited from currently unavailable papers

Counts excluded:
Lacertilia indet. /"Lacertilia gen. et sp. indet." - 2
Serpentes indet. /"Serpentes gen. et sp. indet." - 5
Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp. /"Apodemus (Sylvaemus) gr. sylvaticus-flavicollis" - 114

Metadata
Sample no: 4301

Contributor no: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-06-21 15:41:43

Modified: 2023-06-22 00:47:25

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
20 species
7 singletons
total count 181
geometric series index: 39.6
Fisher's α: 5.745
geometric series k: 0.7873
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6987
Shannon's H: 1.8669
Good's u: 0.9614
Register
Bufo bufo 4
questionably assigned
Lacerta sp. 1
"Lacerta s.l."
Vipera sp. 1
Anas sp. 1
Alectoris cf. graeca 1
"Alectoris cf. A. graeca"
Porzana sp. 1
"Porzana parva vel P. pusilla"
Columba sp. 2
"Columba livia vel C. oenas"
Bubo sp. 4
†Talpa cf. fossilis 10
"Talpa cf. T. fossilis"
Sorex cf. minutus 4
"Sorex cf. S. minutus"
†Petenyia hungarica 4
†Asoriculus gibberodon 25
Oryctolagus cf. valdarnensis 9
"Oryctolagus cf. O. valdarnensis"
†Eliomys cf. intermedius 4
"Eliomys cf. E. intermedius"
†Glis sackdillingensis 2
†Microtus (Allophaiomys) cf. ruffoi 94
"Microtus (Allophaiomys) cf. M. (A.) ruffoi"
Victoriamys chalinei 1
Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sylvaticus 8
Apodemus (Sylvaemus) flavicollis 4
Apodemus (Karstomys) sp. 1
"Apodemus (Kasrtomys) gr. mystacinus-epimelas"