Tarazona 3
Basic information
Sample name: Tarazona 3

Sample aka: TAR3

Reference: M. A. Alvarez-Sierra, I. García Paredes, and . Peláez-Campomanes. 2006. Middle Miocene rodents from the Tarazona area (Ebro Basin, Spain). Beiträge zur Paläontologie 30:5-13 [ER 2401]
Geography
Country: Spain

Coordinate: 42° 54' N, 2° 43' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: MN5

Ma: 14.5

Geography comments: coordinate based on Tarazona
upper MN5, and specifically "zone E" in the zonation of Daams and Freudenthal (1981) (i.e., roughly 14.5 Ma)

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: "25 m above TAR2. It is a bed of 7-10 cm thickness of dark marls with vertebrate and carbonaceous remains"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 56 specimens

Years: 1999, 2000

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 150

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Some 150 kg of sediment from each level were screened"

Metadata
Sample no: 2600

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-18 16:34:51

Modified: 2023-09-08 12:18:16

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
9 species
3 singletons
total count 56
geometric series index: 16.9
Fisher's α: 3.031
geometric series k: 0.6757
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7539
Shannon's H: 1.7076
Good's u: 0.9471
Register
†Democricetodon larteti 6
†Megacricetodon collongensis 23
Cricetidae indet.1
Pseudodryomys rex 4
†Microdyromys complicatus 7
†Microdyromys monspeliensis 1
Muscardinus sp. 2
†Heteroxerus grivensis 11
†Spermophilinus bredai 1