Crémat-0
Basic information
Sample name: Crémat-0

Reference: B. Sigé, J.-P. Aguilar, B. Marandat, and J.-G. Astruc. 1991. Extension au Miocène inférieur des remplissages phosphatés du Quercy. La faune de vertébrés de Crémat (Lot, France). Geobios 24(4):497-502 [ER 2352]
Geography
Country: France

Coordinate: 44° 29' N, 2° 39' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3

Ma: 18.0

Geography comments: "en rive droite du Lot, à la hauteur du confluent du Lot et du Célé" (i.e., in the vicinity of Bouziès, basis of coordinate)
"miocène inférieur (Burdigalien inférieur)... jusqu'à 19 Ma environ" (MN3 and "ca 18 Ma" according to Aguilar 2007)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "un ensemble de poches ouvertes à la surface du plateau... Le sédiment en place est une argile brune riche en éléments quartzeux fins, et en nodules centimétriques et millimétriques de phosphate brun"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Excluded forms: bats, ungulates, other small mammals

Sites: 1

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 50 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: fossils recovered by "lavage-tamisage"
counts are of rodents only; numerous other taxa including insectivores, many bats, Prolagus, and Cainotherium are listed but not discussed in detail

Metadata
Sample no: 2522

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-13 21:05:19

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:47:33

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
5 singletons
total count 50
geometric series index: 28.1
Fisher's α: 5.705
geometric series k: 0.8189
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8678
Shannon's H: 2.237
Good's u: 0.9016
Register
†Eucricetodon cf. infralactorensis 11
Melissiodon dominans 6
†Ligerimys cf. antiquus 4
†Ligerimys cf. lophidens 1
†Peridyromys murinus 1
Peridyromys brailloni 8
Peridyromys prosper 5
Pseudodryomys simplicidens 2
Pseudodryomys ibericus 1
†Microdyromys legidensis 2
Glirudinus cf. bouziguensis 1
Miodyromys biradiculus 7
†Heteroxerus cf. vireti 1