Alozaina
Basic information
Sample name: Alozaina

Reference: J.-P. Aguilar, J. Michaux, J. J. Delannoy, and J. L. Guendon. 1993. A Late Pliocene rodent fauna from Alozaina (Malaga, Spain). Scripta Geologica 103:1-22 [ER 2431]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Málaga

Coordinate: 37° 44' N, 5° 51' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Max Ma: 2.4

Min Ma: 2.0

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "on the eastern slope of the Sierra Prieta" (coordinate based on Alozaina)
"Late Pliocene... between -2.4 and -2.0 Ma according to the time scale proposed by Aguilar et al. in Clauzon et al. (1990)"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: a cave filling consisting of "a reddish sandy clay which locally exhibits horizontal bedding; at some points it is hardened"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 1029 specimens

Years: 1991

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The fossil assemblage has been extracted from several blocks of hardened sediment, and from unhardened sediment... More than one thousand isolated cheek teeth have been collected in 1991 by dissolution of the breccia in water with 10% of formic acid"
additional taxa are not discussed

Metadata
Sample no: 2662

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-04 21:36:26

Modified: 2023-08-18 12:04:05

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
11 species
1 singleton
total count 1029
geometric series index: 13.3
Fisher's α: 1.72
geometric series k: 0.5717
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6776
Shannon's H: 1.5087
Good's u: 0.999
Register
†Stephanomys thaleri 9
†Stephanomys minor 126
†Stephanomys prietaensis 536
new
†Castillomys crusafonti 90
†Apodemus dominans 158
†Apodemus jeanteti 20
†Eliomys intermedius 15
†Blancomys cf. meini 2
Pliopetaurista sp. 1
questionably
†Mimomys medasensis 63
†Trilophomys cf. vandeweerdi 9