Valbro (déblais)
Basic information
Sample name: Valbro (déblais)

Sample aka: VBO

Reference: S. Peigné, M. Vianey-Liaud, T. Pélissié, and B. Sigé. 2014. Valbro: un nouveau site à vertébrés de l'Oligocène inférieur (MP22) de France (Quercy). I - Contexte géologique; Mammalia: Rodentia, Hyaenodontida, Carnivora. Annales de Paléontologie 100:1-45 [ER 2377]
Geography
Country: France

Coordinate: 44° 21' N, 2° 40' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP22

Ma: 32.0

Geography comments: a Quercy deposit "sur le territoire de la commune de Bach" (coordinate based on Bach)
MP22 (i.e., very roughly 32 Ma)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "argiles rouges fossilifères" in karstic fissure fills

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, other large mammals

Excluded forms: bats, ungulates, lizards, snakes, salamanders

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 151 specimens

Years: 2000, 2008, 2009, 2012

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: numerous other taxa including bats, ungulates, etc. are listed without counts and not described
I have excluded indeterminate carnivorans from the register
separate counts are given for eight additional point collections, but the majority of material is from spoil piles ("déblais")

Metadata
Sample no: 2556

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-15 22:20:18

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:53:38

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
24 species
11 singletons
total count 151
geometric series index: 58.8
Fisher's α: 8.041
geometric series k: 0.8467
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8417
Shannon's H: 2.3223
Good's u: 0.9275
Register
†Blainvillimys gregarius 46
†Blainvillimys ? gemellus 9
Issiodoromys medius 13
Sciuromys cayluxi 16
Plesiospermophilus angustidens 1
Butseloglis micio 3
Butseloglis tenuis 5
†Bransatoglis planus 1
†Palaeosciurus goti 5
Oligopetes sp. 1
cf
Atavocricetodon aff. "A. nanus"29
†Hyaenodon leptorhynchus 2
Apterodon sp. 1
cf
†Nimravus intermedius (nimravid)2
†Dinailurictis bonali (nimravid)1
Nimravidae indet.1
Feliformia indet.1
questionably referred
†Pachycynodon cf. borei 1
†Pachycynodon crassirostris 2
Pachycynodon sp. 6
†Amphicynodon cf. typicus 2
Amphicynodon sp. 2 1
questionably referred
†Mustelictis olivieri 1
Arctoidea indet.1