Avenida do Uruguay
Basic information
Sample name: Avenida do Uruguay

Reference: M. T. Antunes and P. Mein. 1986. Petits mammifères du burdigalien inférieur (Universidade Católica, Avenida do Uruguay). Ciências da Terra (UNL) 8:123-138 [ER 2442]
Geography
Country: Portugal


Coordinate: 38.75° N, -9.20° W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN3a

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "Avenida do Uruguay (quartier de Benfica)" (coordinate based on Benfica)
"avant la zone N7 de Blow et á peu près vers N5 (ou N6)" and specifically in MN3a

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "sables"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 113 specimens

Years: 1980

Sampling comments: "concentration au bromoforme après lavage/tamisage"
Cainotherium cf. miocaenicum is also present but not described
fragments are mentioned but not inventoried in several cases

Metadata
Sample number: 2689

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-03-11 20:21:00

Modified: 2017-03-11 09:21:00

Abundance distribution
11 species
0 singletons
total count 113
extrapolated richness: 14.7
Fisher's α: 3.013
geometric series k: 0.7039
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6233
Shannon's H: 1.5582
Good's u: 1.0000
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Register
Crocidosorex cf. antiquus3
Lagopsis cadeoti3
"quelques fragments" (meaning at least three)
Eucricetodon infralactorensis3
Melissiodon dominans3
Glirudinus modestus4
Pseudodryomys ibericus6
Pseudodryomys simplicidens11
Peridyromys murinus67
Microdyromys legidensis2
Ligerimys antiquus7
Heteroxerus rubricati4
includes the originally reported H. vireti material according to Antunes and Mein 2012