Dieupentale
Basic information
Sample name: Dieupentale

Reference: S. Baudelot and P. Olivier. 1978. Les rongeurs (Mammalia, Rodentia) de l'Oligocène terminal de Dieupentale (sud-ouest de la France: Tarn et Garonne). Geobios 11(1):5-19 [ER 2381]
Geography
Country: France

Coordinate: 44° 52' N, 1° 16' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Late Oligocene

Zone: MP30

Ma: 23.5

Geography comments: "une trentaine de kilomètres au NNW de Toulouse dans une carrière exploitée pour une briqueterie" (coordinate based on Dieupentale)
"appartenant au niveau de Coderet" (i.e., MP30 or roughly 23.5 Ma)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: most or all of the described fossils are from "un niveau gréseaux gris-vert, à petits galets calcaires, de quelques cm à 50 cm d'epaisseur" and about 1.5 m higher "un niveau sableux de 0, 30 m à 0, 50 m à petits galets calcaires et d'argile rougeâtre"; most of the microfauna is from the latter level

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Excluded forms: bats, carnivores, ungulates, other small mammals

Sample size: 674 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: insectivores, bats, lagomorphs, carnivores, and ungulates are present but not described
collection methods are unclear

Metadata
Sample no: 2560

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-16 12:51:34

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:55:00

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
17 species
1 singleton
total count 674
geometric series index: 22.3
Fisher's α: 3.169
geometric series k: 0.749
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8025
Shannon's H: 1.9066
Good's u: 0.9985
Register
†Eucricetodon collatus 204
†Adelomyarion vireti 71
Melissiodon aff. quercyi 3
"quelques dents" (meaning at least three)
†Rhodanomys schlosseri 141
†Pseudotheridomys parvulus 28
†Plesiosminthus schaubi 145
†Gliravus bruijni 7
†Peridyromys murinus 17
†Bransatoglis concavidens 6
Glirudinus glirulus 3
Gliridae indet.2
†Heteroxerus paulhiacensis 13
†Heteroxerus cf. lavocati 3
Sciurus sp. 2
Issiodoromys pseudanaema 26
†Archaeomys laurillardi 1
Rhizospalax poirrieri 2