Somosaguas-North
Basic information
Sample name: Somosaguas-North
Reference: M. S. Domingo, D. Martín-Perea, L. Domingo, E. Cantero, J. L. Cantalpiedra, B. A. García Yelo, A. R. Gómez Cano, G. M. Alcalde, O. Fesharaki, M. Hernândez, and . Fernândez. 2017. Taphonomy of mammalian fossil bones from the debris-flow deposits of Somosaguas-North (Middle Miocene, Madrid Basin, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 465:103-121 [ER 2334]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 40° 26' N, 3° 49' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: MN5
Ma: 13.9
Geography comments: "on the campus of the Complutense University of Madrid in the town of Pozuelo de Alarcón... MN5 unit... between 14.05 and 13.75 Ma" (coordinate based on Pozuelo de Alarcón)
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: interpreted as "a savnna biome... in a tropical semiarid climate" with material from unit T3, a "poorly-sorted coarse arkosic sandstones and fine conglomerates with a silty-clay matrix, interbedded with irregular clay levels"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1533 specimens
Sampling comments: Carnivora, Ruminantia, and Artiodactyla indet. counts are omitted
Metadata
Sample number: 2494
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-12 13:07:52
Modified: 2017-02-17 02:42:05
Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 1533
geometric series index: 12.3
Fisher's α: 1.434
geometric series k: 0.4767
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6297
Shannon's H: 1.2740
Good's u: 0.9993
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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