Valdecebro 5
Basic information
Sample name: Valdecebro 5

Sample aka: VDC 5

Reference: R. Adrover, L. Alcalá, P. Mein, E. Moissenet, and J. Orrios. 1986. Mamiferos del Turoliense medio en la Rambla de Valdecebro (Teruel). Estudios Geológicos 42(6):495-509 [ER 4021]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Teruel


Coordinate: 40.36° N, -0.98° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN12

Geography comments: northeast of the city of Teruel in the Rambla de Valdecebro
coordinate based on Rio Seco, which is roughly between Valdecebro and Corbalán (as implied by the map in Fig. 1)
Turolian, and specifically in the upper part of MN12

Environment
Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "margas grises a veces lignitosas con nódulos calizos, restos vegetale y carbonosos, limos calcáreos con asterópodos [sic], intercalcaciones detríticas rojas y unos bancos discontinuous de calizas más resistentes. Este tramo es fosilifero... una capa de margas grises laminadas con nódulos... ha suministrado de la fauna"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sample size: 52 specimens

Sampling comments: the rodents Occitanomys adroveri, Parapodemus barbarae, and Ruscinomys schaubi are described but full counts are only given by Adrover (1983)
there is one specimen of Eliomys truci, but it is the only fully documented rodent
the cyprinid Leuciscus pachechoi, amphibians (presumably frogs), anguids, lacertids, birds, insectivores, and Prolagus crusafonti are also present but not enumerated

Metadata
Sample number: 4437

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-09 22:29:31

Modified: 2024-11-09 22:29:31

Abundance distribution
7 species
0 singletons
total count 52
geometric series index: 8.4
Fisher's α: 2.178
geometric series k: 0.8053
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8326
Shannon's H: 1.8656
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Indarctos atticus11
Baranogale adroveri10
Thalassictis aff. hipparionum10
Lycyaena chaeretis8
Cremohipparion mediterraneum5
Bovidae indet.3
compared to Hispanodorcas torrubiae
Cervidae indet.5
compared to Capreolus concudensis