Casa Sgherri
Basic information
Sample name: Casa Sgherri

Reference: F. Marcolini, F. P. Bonadonna, T. Kotsakis, P. Mazza, and G. Zanchetta. 2000. Preliminary data on the micro- and macromammal remains from Casa Sgherri, Lower Valdarno (Tuscany, Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 39(2):243-252 [ER 4003]
Geography
Country: Italy


Coordinate: 43.76° N, 10.78° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 2.1

Min Ma: 1.9

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: coordinate estimated from the map in Fig. 1
from the "unità di Massarella" unit
interpreted as 1.9 to 2.1 Ma and nominally "Late Pliocene" based on faunal content, but this is now Early Pleistocene

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: the unit "consists of fine silty sands and gravels and sometimes bears cross-bedded structures" and the fossily deposit is interpreted as a "filled-channel deposit"
the sands "provided only teeth and no postcranial elements"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sample size: 45 specimens

Sampling comments: collection methods are not discussed
hyena coprolites are also present

Metadata
Sample number: 4417

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-01 10:28:23

Modified: 2024-11-01 10:28:23

Abundance distribution
15 species
8 singletons
total count 45
geometric series index: 49.9
Fisher's α: 7.879
geometric series k: 0.8326
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8126
Shannon's H: 2.1282
Good's u: 0.8262
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Macaca sylvanus2
"Macaca sylvana florentina"
Enhydrictis ardea1
a possible but not conclusive synonym of Pannonictis nestii: see Colombero et al. 2012
Acinonyx pardinensis1
Sus strozzii2
Dama sp.13
"Pseudodama sp.": see van der Made et al. (2023)
Capreolus sp.2
Leptobos sp.1
Glis sp.1
Mimomys pitymyoides1
Mimomys cf. pusillus1
Mimomys sp. 13
Mimomys sp. 22
Apodemus dominans13
Hystrix refossa1
Oryctolagus cf. lacosti1