Alcalá del Júcar
Basic information
Sample name: Alcalá del Júcar

Reference: A. V. Mazo. 1997. El yacimiento Rusciniense de Alcala del Jucar (Albacete). Taxonomica y biostratigrafia. Estudios Geológicos 53(5-6):285-286 [ER 4023]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Albacete


Coordinate: 39° 12' N, 1° 26' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Alcalá del Júcar

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Zone: MN15

Geography comments: about 1.5 km west of Alcalá del Júcar (basis of coordinate) in the Rincón de San Lorenzo

Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Habitat comments: "en la formación lacustre de margas y calizas arcillosas de Alcalá del Júcar" with the vertebrates coming from "un nivel de limos grises y rojizos con intercalaciones centimétricas de calizas limosas compactas" (presumably not lacustrine)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 24 specimens

Years: 1990

Sampling comments: a salvage excavation: the site was discovered in 1990 during the construction of a house on the property of D. Francisco Torres
200 kg of sediment was screenwashed
the material in the Museo Provincial de Albacete except for the proboscidean teeth, which were retained by Torres
an indeterminate and undescribed talpid, gastropods, and crustaceans are also present

Metadata
Sample number: 4439

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-09 23:36:52

Modified: 2024-11-09 23:41:17

Abundance distribution
6 species
4 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 20.2
Fisher's α: 2.568
geometric series k: 0.5987
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5978
Shannon's H: 1.2211
Good's u: 0.8333
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Apodemus dominans1
Castillomys crusafonti1
Cricetus barrieri = Apocricetus barrierei1
Anancus arvernensis7
Stephanorhinus miguelcrusafonti = Pliorhinus miguelcrusafonti1
7 specimens presumed to represent one individual
Parabos sp.13