Lespignan
Basic information
Sample name: Lespignan

Reference: J.-P. Aguilar. 1974. Les rongeurs du Miocène inférieur en Bas-Languedoc et les corrélations entre échelles stratigraphiques marine et continentale. Geobios 7(4):345-398 [ER 2383]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 43° 16' N, 3° 10' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN2b

Ma: 20.5

Geography comments: "A 1 km au Sud" of Lespignan (Capetta 1973) (coordinate based on Lespignan)
Aquitanian, younger than Paulhiac and older than Laugnac
MN 2b according to Hugueney and Ringeade (1989) and therefore roughly 20.5 Ma

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: rodents are from bed 10 ("sables jaunes á gris") of Capetta (1973)

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 70 specimens

Sampling comments: "Les vertébrés ont été récoltés par lavage-tamisage" (Capetta 1973)
additional taxa are not discussed

Metadata
Sample number: 2565

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-16 18:04:39

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:56:10

Abundance distribution
12 species
2 singletons
total count 70
geometric series index: 20.2
Fisher's α: 4.168
geometric series k: 0.7491
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8124
Shannon's H: 2.0121
Good's u: 0.9726
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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