Cloister
Basic information
Sample name: Cloister

Reference: M. T. Antunes and P. Mein. 2012. A new lower Miocene small mammals site at the cloister of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and mammalian immigration into westernmost Europe. Revista de la Sociedad Geológica de España 25(3-4):209-217 [ER 2441]
Geography
Country: Portugal


Coordinate: 38° 43' N, 9° 9' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN2b

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "at the Cloister of the former ‘Convento de Jesus’ monastery" now on owned by the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (coordinate based on the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "green, expansive clays"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 15 specimens

Years: 2010

Sampling comments: "About 175 kg of clays were washed, sieved and tried"
fishes and a crocodilian are present but not described

Metadata
Sample number: 2687

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-11 17:51:34

Modified: 2023-09-11 10:37:43

Abundance distribution
5 species
2 singletons
total count 15
geometric series index: 11.9
Fisher's α: 2.626
geometric series k: 0.6148
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6619
Shannon's H: 1.3379
Good's u: 0.8756
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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