Avenida do Uruguay
Basic information
Sample name: Avenida do Uruguay

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: 38.75° N, -9.2° W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3

Geography comments: "Avenida do Uruguay (quartier de Benfica)" (coordinate based on Benfica)
"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: 113 specimens

Years: 1980

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: 2689

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-11 20:21:00

Modified: 2024-11-10 20:44:23

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
11 species
0 singleton
total count 113
geometric series index: 14.7
Fisher's α: 3.013
geometric series k: 0.733
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6233
Shannon's H: 1.5582
Good's u: 1
Register
Crocidosorex cf. antiquus 3
†Lagopsis cadeoti 3
"quelques fragments" (meaning at least three)
†Eucricetodon infralactorensis 3
Melissiodon dominans 3
Glirudinus modestus 4
Pseudodryomys ibericus 6
Pseudodryomys simplicidens 11
†Peridyromys murinus 67
†Microdyromys legidensis 2
†Ligerimys antiquus 7
†Heteroxerus rubricati 4
includes the originally reported H. vireti material according to Antunes and Mein 2012