Universidade Católica
Basic information
Sample name: Universidade Católica

Reference: M. T. Antunes and P. Mein. 1986. Petits mammifères du burdigalien inférieur (Universidade Católica, Avenida do Uruguay). Ciências da Terra (UNL) 8:123-138 [ER 2442]
Geography
Country: Portugal

Coordinate: 41.15° N, -8.67° W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: no geographic details given (coordinate based on Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
"avant la zone N7 de Blow et á peu près vers N5 (ou N6)" and specifically in MN3a

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "sables"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals

Excluded forms: ungulates

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 96 specimens

Years: 1967, 1968, 1979

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "concentration au bromoforme après lavage/tamisage"
Cainotherium cf. miocaenicum is also present but not described
fragments are mentioned but not inventoried in several cases

Metadata
Sample no: 2688

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-11 20:17:43

Modified: 2024-11-10 20:41:15

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
6 singletons
total count 96
geometric series index: 29.0
Fisher's α: 4.055
geometric series k: 0.7354
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7588
Shannon's H: 1.8194
Good's u: 0.9377
Register
Amphechinus sp. 1
Paratalpa sp. 1
Dimylidae indet.1
†Prolagus vasconiensis 1
questionably
†Lagopsis cadeoti 19
†Eucricetodon infralactorensis 6
Glirinae indet.1
Pseudodryomys ibericus 2
Pseudodryomys simplicidens 11
Armantomys sp. 1
†Peridyromys murinus 40
†Ligerimys antiquus 6
†Heteroxerus rubricati 6
includes the originally reported H. vireti material according to Antunes and Mein 2012