Alozaina
Basic information
Sample name: Alozaina
Reference: J.-P. Aguilar, J. Michaux, J. J. Delannoy, and J. L. Guendon. 1993. A Late Pliocene rodent fauna from Alozaina (Malaga, Spain). Scripta Geologica 103:1-22 [ER 2431]
Geography
Country: Spain
State: Mâlaga
Coordinate: 36° 44' N, 4° 51' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Max Ma: 2.4
Min Ma: 2
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: "on the eastern slope of the Sierra Prieta" (coordinate based on Alozaina)
"Late Pliocene... between -2.4 and -2.0 Ma according to the time scale proposed by Aguilar et al. in Clauzon et al. (1990)"
"Late Pliocene... between -2.4 and -2.0 Ma according to the time scale proposed by Aguilar et al. in Clauzon et al. (1990)"
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Habitat comments: a cave filling consisting of "a reddish sandy clay which locally exhibits horizontal bedding; at some points it is hardened"
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1029 specimens
Years: 1991
Sampling comments: "The fossil assemblage has been extracted from several blocks of hardened sediment, and from unhardened sediment... More than one thousand isolated cheek teeth have been collected in 1991 by dissolution of the breccia in water with 10% of formic acid"
additional taxa are not discussed
additional taxa are not discussed
Metadata
Sample number: 2662
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2017-03-04 21:36:26
Modified: 2023-08-18 12:04:05
Abundance distribution
11 species
1 singleton
total count 1029
geometric series index: 13.3
Fisher's α: 1.720
geometric series k: 0.5334
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6776
Shannon's H: 1.5087
Good's u: 0.9990
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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