Sima del Elefante (TE18)
Basic information
Sample name: Sima del Elefante (TE18)

Reference: J. M. López-García, H.-A. Blain, R. de Marfá, A. García, J. Martinell, M. L. I. Bennásar, and G. Cuenca-Bescós. 2011. Small-mammals from the Middle Pleistocene layers of the Sima del Elefante (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, northwestern Spain). Geologica Acta 9(1):29-43 [ER 2368]
Geography
Country: Spain


Coordinate: 42° 22' 0" N, 3° 31' 20" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.35

Min Ma: 0.15

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "Atapuerca... near the city of Burgos" (coordinate based on the Atapuerca archaeological site)
"The large-mammal association... is typical of the last third of the Middle Pleistocene (0.35 - 0.15 Ma)"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: conglomerate

Habitat comments: "infilled karstic cave site" with the fossils coming from "gravels and boulders with cross-lamination"

Methods
Life forms: bats,rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 21 specimens

Years: 2001 - 2004

Sampling comments: "disarticulated bone fragments collected by water screening during the 2001 to 2004 excavation campaigns... All the sediment (approximately 2,000kg) was water-screened using superimposed 10, 5 and 0.5mm mesh screens" (figure applies to both layers combined)

Metadata
Sample number: 2546

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-15 11:46:34

Modified: 2023-04-13 11:46:20

Abundance distribution
7 species
3 singletons
total count 21
geometric series index: 16.9
Fisher's α: 3.677
geometric series k: 0.7230
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7690
Shannon's H: 1.6826
Good's u: 0.8618
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Register
Erinaceus sp.1
cf
Crocidura sp.2
Myotis sp.4
gr. myotis-oxygnathus
Miniopterus schreibersii112.4 g insectivore
Microtus agrestis1
Iberomys brecciensis5
Oryctolagus sp.7