Grotta Cucgiliana
Basic information
Sample name: Grotta Cucgiliana
Reference: S. Farina. 2011. Late Pleistocene mammals from Grotta Cucigliana (Monte Pisano, Italy). Atti della Societá toscana di scienze naturali, Memorie, Serie B 118:67-74 [ER 3967]
Geography
Country: Italy
Coordinate: 43° 41' 14" N, 10° 33' 12" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.074
Min Ma: 0.024
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: "in the small centre of Cucigliana, near Vicopisano"
the sample is divided into two assemblages called Cucigliana A and B strictly on a "paleoecological basis" and these are thought to respectively represent the "MIS 5a to MIS 4 transition" and "the beginning of MIS 3" based on biochronology
these are shown as spanning 74 ka to just over 59 ka and possibly as young as 24 ka (Fig. 3)
the sample is divided into two assemblages called Cucigliana A and B strictly on a "paleoecological basis" and these are thought to respectively represent the "MIS 5a to MIS 4 transition" and "the beginning of MIS 3" based on biochronology
these are shown as spanning 74 ka to just over 59 ka and possibly as young as 24 ka (Fig. 3)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: a "karst" cave
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 917 specimens
Years: 1879
Sampling comments: discovered in 1878 and initially excavated in 1879 (Acconci 1880), with later collections described by Del Campana (1912, 1914)
Metadata
Sample number: 4378
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-11-27 14:20:04
Modified: 2023-11-27 03:20:04
Abundance distribution
25 species
4 singletons
total count 917
geometric series index: 34.5
Fisher's α: 4.744
geometric series k: 0.7886
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8251
Shannon's H: 2.2001
Good's u: 0.9956
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Register
| Erinaceus europaeus | 4 | |
| Arvicola amphibius | 8 | |
| Apodemus sp. | 1 | |
| sylvaticus-flavicollis group | ||
| Lepus sp. | 30 | |
| Meles meles | 6 | 10 kg invertivore-herbivore |
| Mustelidae indet. | 1 | |
| presumably another taxon | ||
| Canis lupus | 10 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Canis aureus | 1 | 9.9 kg carnivore-frugivore |
| Vulpes vulpes | 16 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| †Ursus spelaeus | 31 | |
| Ursus arctos | 3 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |
| Felis silvestris | 3 | 4.5 kg carnivore |
| "Felis sylvestris" | ||
| Lynx lynx | 2 | 16 kg carnivore |
| Panthera pardus | 37 | 33 kg carnivore |
| †Crocuta spelaea | 299 | |
| "Crocuta crocuta spelaea" | ||
| †Stephanorhinus hemitoechus | 11 | |
| Equus ferus | 84 | 422 kg |
| Sus scrofa | 38 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Capreolus capreolus | 16 | 22 kg browser |
| Cervus elaphus | 191 | 142 kg browser-grazer |
| also 3 Cervus or Dama | ||
| Dama dama | 29 | 62 kg |
| Rupicapra rupicapra | 6 | 27 kg browser-grazer |
| †Bos primigenius | 87 | |
| †Palaeoloxodon antiquus | 2 | |
| Homo sapiens | 1 | 64 kg |