Sample name: Podlesice

Reference: K. Kowalski. 1956. Insectivores, bats and rodents from the early Pleistocene bone breccia of Podlesice near Kroczyce (Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 1(4):331-394 [ER 2370]

Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: breccia

Habitat comments: "a bone breccia... The breccia, about 4 m in thickness, infilled a funnel-like pit in Jurassic limestone, passing downwards as a wide fissure"

Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 88 specimens

Years: 1949

Sampling comments: "The author came across the breccia in 1949 and then collected an important part of it.... Fragments of breccia were dissolved in 10°/11 acetic acid... Up to the present about 100 kg of the breccia material has been worked out"
excellent bat material is also discussed, but exact counts for bats are not given, so I have omitted them from the register

Sample number: 2548

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-15 12:41:26

Modified: 2024-10-22 06:01:23