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Negratín-1
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Basic information
Sample name: Negratín-1

Sample aka: NGR-1

Reference: R. Minwer-Barakat, A. García-Alix, J. Agustí, E. Martín Suârez, and M. Freudenthal. 2009. The micromammal fauna from Negratín-1 (Guadix Basin, southern Spain): new evidence of African-Iberian mammal exchanges during the late Miocene. Journal of Paleontology 83(6):854-879 [ER 2416]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Granada


Coordinate: 37° 36' N, 2° 46' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN13

Max Ma: 5.96

Min Ma: 5.3

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "4 km south of Cuevas del Campo, close to the road connecting this village with the Negratín Dam" (coordinate based on Cuevas del Campo)
"late Turolian (MN13)" and more specifically "latest Miocene, between 5.96 and 5.3 Ma" (meaning late MN13)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: siltstone

Habitat comments: "a 50 cm thick level of black lutites with abundant organic matter, gastropods and root traces" (presumed to be a silt, possibly a clay, but probably not because the authors describe "laminated clays" higher in the section that are certainly not the same)

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals

Sample size: 121 specimens

Sampling comments: other taxa and collecting methods not discussed

Metadata
Sample number: 2630

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-21 13:03:30

Modified: 2017-02-21 02:03:30

Abundance distribution
12 species
0 singletons
total count 121
extrapolated richness: 14.8
Fisher's α: 3.309
geometric series k: 0.7867
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8717
Shannon's H: 2.2327
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Current reference: Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)