Podlesice
Basic information
Sample name: Podlesice

Reference: K. Kowalski. 1956. Insectivores, bats and rodents from the early Pleistocene bone breccia of Podlesice near Kroczyce (Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 1(4):331-394 [ER 2370]
Geography
Country: Poland

Coordinate: 51° 34' N, 20° 32' E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Geography comments: "at the village of Podlesice"
most likely Early Pleistocene as originally stated, at least based on the faunal assemblage

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: breccia

Habitat comments: "a bone breccia... The breccia, about 4 m in thickness, infilled a funnel-like pit in Jurassic limestone, passing downwards as a wide fissure"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Excluded forms: bats

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 88 specimens

Years: 1949

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 100

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The author came across the breccia in 1949 and then collected an important part of it.... Fragments of breccia were dissolved in 10°/11 acetic acid... Up to the present about 100 kg of the breccia material has been worked out"
excellent bat material is also discussed, but exact counts for bats are not given, so I have omitted them from the register

Metadata
Sample no: 2548

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-15 12:41:26

Modified: 2024-10-22 06:01:23

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
2 singletons
total count 88
geometric series index: 20.1
Fisher's α: 4.213
geometric series k: 0.7729
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8506
Shannon's H: 2.164
Good's u: 0.9778
Register
†Talpa minor 7
†Desmana nehringi 1
†Sorex alpinoides 22
new
†Sorex dehneli 18
new
†Sorex cf. praearaneus 4
Sorex sp. 1
†Petenyia hungarica 3
Soriculus kubinyi 3
Paenelimnoecus cf. pannonicus 2
"Suncus cf. pannonicus"
†Mimomys cf. pusillus 5
Baranomys loczyi 7
†Parapodemus coronensis 13
†Glis sackdillingensis minor2
new subspecies