Saint-Privat-des-Vieux
Basic information
Sample name: Saint-Privat-des-Vieux

Reference: M. Vianey-Liaud, B. Comte, B. Marandat, S. Peigné, J.-C. Rage, and J. Sudre. 2014. A new early Late Oligocene (MP 26) continental vertebrate fauna from Saint-Privat-des-Vieux (Alès Basin, Gard, Southern France). Geodiversitas 36(4):565-622 [ER 2389]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 44° 9' N, 4° 8' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Oligocene

Zone: MP26

Ma: 26.5

Geography comments: "East-NorthEast to Alès, at Saint-Privat-des-Vieux" (coordinate based on Saint-Privat-des-Vieux)
"lower Chattian" and MP26 (i.e., roughly 26.5 Ma based on the time scale of Walliser et al. 2016)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: mudstone

Habitat comments: "a dark lenticular layer, about 20 cm thick, extending a few meters long, rich in organic matter and aquatic snails, overlying a layer of beige to pale brown marly limestone displaying numerous fragments of plants... The dark layer has yielded most of the small vertebrate remains" (presumably a mudstone with some sand layers)

Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals,lizards,snakes,turtles,other reptiles,frogs,salamanders

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 1166 specimens

Sampling comments: "the amount of sediment processed was limited to a few hundred kilograms"
I have excluded Krokolithes eggshells from the register

Metadata
Sample number: 2575

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-17 16:50:32

Modified: 2017-02-17 06:14:18

Abundance distribution
34 species
7 singletons
total count 1166
geometric series index: 56.4
Fisher's α: 6.555
geometric series k: 0.8351
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7901
Shannon's H: 1.9406
Good's u: 0.9940
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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