BLS-1
Basic information
Sample name: BLS-1

Sample aka: Barranco de Blas

Reference: A. García-Alix, R. Minwer-Barakat, E. Martín-Suârez, and M. Freudenthal. 2007. A late Ruscinian (Pliocene) rodent fauna from the Granada Basin (SE Spain). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):1066-1070 [ER 2360]
Geography
Country: Spain


Coordinate: 37° 11' N, 4° 4' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Zone: MN15

Geography comments: apparently somewhere near Calardos (basis of coordinate)
MN15

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "black-grey lutites, red conglomerates and, to a lesser extent, limestones" with the fossils apparently from a channel sandstone based on Fig. 2

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 23 specimens

Sampling comments: "We processed 900 kg of sediment from BLS-1, 1320kg from BLS-5A, and 2200 kg from BLS-6"
an indeterminate soricid was found in one of the samples (not clear which one)

Metadata
Sample number: 2531

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 17:28:38

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:53:26

Abundance distribution
5 species
3 singletons
total count 23
geometric series index: 15.5
Fisher's α: 1.968
geometric series k: 0.4925
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4051
Shannon's H: 0.8981
Good's u: 0.8696
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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