Artesilla
Basic information
Sample name: Artesilla
Reference: B. Azanza, E. Cerdeño, L. Ginsburg, J. van der Made, J. Morales, and P. Tassy. 1993. Les grands mammifères du Miocene inférieur d Artesilla, bassin de Calatayud-Teruel (province de Saragosse, Espagne). Bulletin du Museum national d'histoire naturelle. Section C, Sciences de la terre, paléontologie, géologie, minéralogie 15(1):105-153 [ER 4144]
Geography
Country: Spain
State: Zaragoza
Coordinate: 41° 11' 19" N, 1° 29' 57" E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Scale: basin
Time interval: Early Miocene
Zone: MN4
Geography comments: 1 km east of the village of Villafeliche
Environment
Lithology: breccia
Taphonomic context: fissure fill
Habitat comments: the fossils are within a layer of marls and greenish brown clays intersected by fine sands, with a high concentration in the sands that forms a cemented bone breccia interpreted as a fissure fill
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other large mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 219 specimens
Museum: Musée Paléontologique de l'Université de Saragosse
Sampling comments: discovered in 1987 by Julio García, a resident of the village, and excavated over three field seasons
11 species of rodents are listed but not described
11 species of rodents are listed but not described
Metadata
Sample number: 4600
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: Harrison Wu
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-12 06:21:12
Modified: 2025-09-02 11:55:13
Abundance distribution
19 species
7 singletons
total count 219
geometric series index: 37.7
Fisher's α: 4.996
geometric series k: 0.7862
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7605
Shannon's H: 1.8732
Good's u: 0.9681
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| †Hemicyon stehlini | 3 | |
| †Amphicyon giganteus | 1 | |
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| Bunolistriodon aff. latidens | 70 | |
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