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
Latlng 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)
"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
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "the amount of sediment processed was limited to a few hundred kilograms"
I have excluded Krokolithes eggshells from the register
I have excluded Krokolithes eggshells from the register
Metadata
Sample no: 2575
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-02-17 16:50:32
Modified: 2017-02-17 06:14:18
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
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: 0.994
Register
| Chelotriton sp. | 1 | |
| cf | ||
| Caudata indet. | 3 | |
| Alytidae indet. | 18 | |
| Discoglossus or Latonia | ||
| Pelophylax sp. | 14 | |
| Testudines indet. | 5 | |
| "Chelonian indet." | ||
| Crocodylia indet. | 205 | |
| Lacerta cf. filholi | 15 | |
| Pseudeumeces sp. | 1 | |
| cf | ||
| Lacertidae indet. | 2 | |
| Ophisaurus sp. | 161 | |
| Shinisauria indet. | 2 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Amphisbaenia indet. A | 2 | |
| Amphisbaenia indet. B | 1 | |
| Platyspondylia sp. | 15 | |
| Boidae indet. | 5 | |
| "Booid indet." | ||
| Peratherium cf. elegans | 4 | |
| Geotrypus sp. | 2 | |
| cf | ||
| Cuvierimops sp. | 9 | |
| Issiodoromys pauffiensis | 382 | |
| Protechimys major | 17 | |
| †Pseudocricetodon incertus | 264 | |
| †Eucricetodon huerzeleri | 5 | |
| Cricetidae indet. | 1 | |
| Heterocricetodon gaimersheimensis | 8 | |
| †Gliravus bruijni | 5 | |
| †Eomys aff. zitteli | 5 | |
| Comtia bernardi | 1 | |
| Aplodontidae indet. | 3 | |
| Plesiomeryx sp. | 2 | |
| †Caenomeryx cf. communis | 2 | |
| †Lophiomeryx cf. chalaniati | 2 | |
| Bachitherium sp. | 2 | |
| †Thereutherium thylacodes | 1 | |
| Palaeogale sp. | 1 | |
| cf | ||