Jou Puerta
Basic information
Sample name: Jou Puerta
Reference: D. J. Alvarez-Lao. 2014. The Jou Puerta cave (Asturias, NW Spain): A MIS 3 large mammal assemblage with mixture of cold and temperate elements. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 393:1-19 [ER 3076]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 43° 25' N, 4° 45' W
Coordinate basis: based on political unit
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.036655
Min Ma: 0.030275
Age basis: radiocarbon (calibrated)
Geography comments: "discovered in April 2011 during the excavation works for a highway in Llanes... in a cave placed under a sinkhole"
coordinate based on the municipality of Llanes
"The chronology of the fossil assemblage was determined by three AMS radiocarbon dates of 30,275 ± 105 Cal ka BP (Beta—313518), 34,235 ± 374 Cal ka BP (Beta—313520) and 36,655 ± 205 Cal ka BP (Beta—313519), all falling within the MIS 3"
coordinate based on the municipality of Llanes
"The chronology of the fossil assemblage was determined by three AMS radiocarbon dates of 30,275 ± 105 Cal ka BP (Beta—313518), 34,235 ± 374 Cal ka BP (Beta—313520) and 36,655 ± 205 Cal ka BP (Beta—313519), all falling within the MIS 3"
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: limestone
Taphonomic context: pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "There was no clear stratigraphy in the fossiliferous deposits... the sinkhole acted as a natural trap... The possibility that carnivores or humans were responsible for the bone accumulation should be discarded since most of the fossils are well preserved"
Fig. 2 shows that the cave is formed in limestone and the excavated fossils were preserved in "debris" and "fluvial sediments"
Fig. 2 shows that the cave is formed in limestone and the excavated fossils were preserved in "debris" and "fluvial sediments"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry,surface
Sample size: 971 specimens
Years: 2011
Sampling comments: "Numerous large mammal bones were scattered over the cave floor... Fossil remains were recovered during an intensive exca- vation campaign in the summer of 2011, few weeks before the cave was definitively destroyed by the highway works"
Metadata
Sample number: 3349
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-25 19:01:18
Modified: 2023-04-03 06:58:21
Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 971
geometric series index: 12.0
Fisher's α: 1.553
geometric series k: 0.5146
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7640
Shannon's H: 1.6860
Good's u: 0.9990
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| †Megaloceros giganteus | 8 | |
| Capreolus capreolus | 101 | 22 kg browser |
| Rupicapra pyrenaica | 117 | |
| Capra pyrenaica | 77 | |
| Bovini indet. | 159 | |
| Equus ferus | 4 | 422 kg |
| †Coelodonta antiquitatis | 105 | |
| †Mammuthus primigenius | 4 | |
| Panthera cf. pardus | 1 | 33 kg carnivore |