The Ecological Register: BLS-6

BLS-6

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Basic information

Sample name: BLS-6

Sample aka: Barranco de Blas

Reference: A. García-Alix, R. Minwer-Barakat, E. Martín-Suârez, and M. Freudenthal. 2007. A late Ruscinian (Pliocene) rodent fauna from the Granada Basin (SE Spain). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):1066-1070 [ER 2360]

Geography

Country: Spain

Coordinate: 37° 11' N, 4° 4' W

Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Zone: MN15

Geography comments: apparently somewhere near Calardos (basis of coordinate)
MN15

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Environment

Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "black-grey lutites, red conglomerates and, to a lesser extent, limestones" with the fossils apparently from a channel sandstone based on Fig. 2

Methods

Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 24 specimens

Sampling comments: "We processed 900 kg of sediment from BLS-1, 1320kg from BLS-5A, and 2200 kg from BLS-6"
an indeterminate soricid was found in one of the samples (not clear which one)

Metadata

Sample number: 2533

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 17:32:09

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:54:13

Abundance distribution

5 species

1 singleton

total count 24

extrapolated richness: 8.3

Fisher's α: 1.922

geometric series k: 0.5491

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6812

Shannon's H: 1.3507

Good's u: 0.9617

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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