Crevillente 15
Basic information
Sample name: Crevillente 15

Reference: P. Montoya and M. T. Alberdi. 1995. Crevillente 15 y Crevillente 16, dos nuevos yacimientos con macromamiferos en el Miocene superior de Alicante (España). Estudios Geológicos 51:159-182 [ER 4015]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Alicante


Coordinate: 38.27° N, -0.78° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN12

Section: Crevillente

Unit number: 2

Unit order: below to above

Geography comments: from the municipality of Crevillente in Alicante "en el mismo de la carretera Aspe-Crevillente" about 50 m from Crevillente 16 and shown as about 1/3 of the way from Crevillente to Aspe in Fig. 1
from unit 6 in the local section, above Crevillente 16
assigned to MN12 (middle Turolian) based on biochronology

Environment
Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "1.5 m de margas calcáreas blancas a grises con gasterópodos continentales y restos de vertebrados"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,surface

Sample size: 70 specimens

Sampling comments: fieldwork was in 1987, with some specimens collected by prospecting but most by excavation
uncounted eusuchian crocodylians, snakes, turtles, rodents, insectivorans, and lagomorphs are present somewhere in the Crevillente localities
speciments are in the Departamento de Geología de la Universitat de València

Metadata
Sample number: 4429

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-06 01:10:17

Modified: 2024-11-06 01:10:17

Abundance distribution
8 species
2 singletons
total count 70
geometric series index: 12.4
Fisher's α: 2.328
geometric series k: 0.6043
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7077
Shannon's H: 1.5803
Good's u: 0.9714
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Paramachaerodus cf. orientalis1
"Paramachairodus cf. orientalis"
Hippopotamodon major7
"Microstonyx major"
Cervidae indet.5
Miotragocerus gaudryi10
"Tragoportax gaudryi"
Hispanodorcas sp.8
compared to
Cremohipparion mediterraneum34
compared to
Dihoplus schleiermacheri4
"Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri"
Deinotherium cf. giganteum1