Mala Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Mala Cave

Sample aka: Jaskinia Mala

Reference: A. Sulimski, A. Szynkiewicz, and B. Woloszyn. 1979. The Middle Pliocene micromammals from Central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 24(3):1-29 [ER 3903]
Geography
Country: Poland

State: Lodz


County: Pajeczno


Coordinate: 51.098602° N, 18.792337° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Section: Member 4/5

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 5.3

Min Ma: 3.6

Age basis: other

Geography comments: Mala Cave is located on Zelce Hill in Central Poland near the town of Dzialoszyn

No precise dates are provided. It is vaguely indicated that the site is dated through affinities with two other sites at Zelce Hill, as well as faunal analogs with other Early-Middle Pliocene sites in Europe

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: All material was recovered from Members 4/5 of Mala Cave

Member 4 - "reddish sands", occasionally cemented by "calcite containing black nodules of "Bohnerze"

Member 5 - "red clays"

Summary taphonomy information is not provided

Methods
Life forms: bats,rodents,other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 251 specimens

Sampling comments: Faunal remains of 18 species were recovered from Mala Cave

Specimens described are housed in the Paleozoological Laboratory of Wroclaw University

Counts excluded:
Sorex sp. - 4
Rhinolophus sp. - 22

Metadata
Sample number: 4292

Contributor: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-06-05 13:12:46

Modified: 2023-06-05 03:12:46

Abundance distribution
15 species
2 singletons
total count 251
geometric series index: 20.2
Fisher's α: 3.499
geometric series k: 0.7197
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7998
Shannon's H: 2.0754
Good's u: 0.9921
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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