Caló den Rafelino
Basic information
Sample name: Caló den Rafelino

Sample aka: CdR

Reference: P. Bover, J. Rofes, S. Bailon, J. Agustí, G. Cuenca-Bescós, E. Torres, and J. A. Alcover. 2014. Late Miocene/Early Pliocene vertebrate fauna from Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean): an update. Integrative Zoology 9:183-196 [ER 3918]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Balearic Islands

County: Manacor

Coordinate: 39.556866° N, 3.369305° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Max Ma: 7.2

Min Ma: 3.6

Age basis: other

Geography comments: The CdR locality is situated on the eastern coast of Mallorca on the cliffs at the edge of the Caló den Rafelino

Faunal comparisons indicate an Early Pliocene chronology but "a Messinian chronology cannot be completely discarded

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Environment
Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "Red silt of karstic origin which are the floor sediment of a collapsed cave in the Upper Miocene limestone of the so-called Reef Complex"

"The bones obtained from this breccia were mainly broken, worn and eroded"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles

Excluded forms: fishes

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 290 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: Several fish teeth were recovered from CdR, as well as a single bird bone

Counts excluded:
Vipera sp. - 2

Metadata
Sample no: 4319

Contributor no: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-06-29 13:15:41

Modified: 2023-06-29 03:44:07

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
4 singletons
total count 290
geometric series index: 22.3
Fisher's α: 2.525
geometric series k: 0.6178
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4988
Shannon's H: 1.147
Good's u: 0.9863
Register
Aves indet.1
Testudinidae indet.2
"Chelonii"
Maioricalacerta rafelinensis 5
Dopasia sp. 1
Colubrinae indet.5
Vipera natiensis 1
questionably assigned
Nesiotites rafelinensis 1
Tragomys macpheei 36
Cricetinae indet.200
Hypnomys sp. 2
†Hypolagus balearicus 17
Myotragus palomboi 19