Nouvelle Faculté Médicine
Basic information
Sample name: Nouvelle Faculté Médicine

Reference: J.-P. Aguilar. 1977. Les gisements continentaux de Plaissan et de la Nouvelle Faculté de Médicine (Hérault) leur position stratigraphique. Géobios 10(1):81-101 [ER 2443]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 43° 38' N, 3° 52' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN1

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "environ á 500 métres á l'ouest du gisement karstique de La Colombière, dans l'enceinte de la nouvelle faculté de médecine" (apparently meaning within Montepellier; coordinate based on Université Montpellier-II)
"contemporain de La Paillade ou légèrement plus ancien est d'ãge Aquitanien" (MN1 according to Furió et al. 2012)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "La couche fossilifère, formée de marnes noires á lie-de-vin, dont l'épaisseur varie de 10 á 30 cm apparait dans des marnes vertes qui reposent sur les formations de l'Oligocène"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sample size: 275 specimens

Sampling comments: collecting methods are not discussed
gastropods, squamates, and insectivores are present but not described

Metadata
Sample number: 2691

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-12 18:01:49

Modified: 2017-03-12 07:01:49

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 275
geometric series index: 11.4
Fisher's α: 1.784
geometric series k: 0.5896
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6570
Shannon's H: 1.3595
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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