La Puebla de Valverde
Basic information
Sample name: La Puebla de Valverde
Reference: E. Heintz. 1978. La faune villafranchienne de la Puebla de Valverde, Teruel, Espagne. Composition qualitative et quantitative. Géologie Méditerranéene 5(2):277-280 [ER 3983]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 40° 13' N, 0° 55' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Max Ma: 2.14
Min Ma: 1.95
Age basis: other
Geography comments: the exact coordinate and elevation are given by Gautier and Heinz (1974), and the site is about 700 m from the town of the same name and 23 km from the city of Teruel in the province of Teruel (coordinates originally recorded as 40 13 8 and 2 45 41, apparently 40 13 and -0 55)
thought to be middle Villafranchian and in between the ages of Villaroya (older) and Valverde de Calatrava (younger) and close to Saint-Vallier based on biochronology (Gautier and Heintz 1974)
thought to be "2.14-1.95 Ma" by Madurell-Malapeira et al. (2014)
thought to be middle Villafranchian and in between the ages of Villaroya (older) and Valverde de Calatrava (younger) and close to Saint-Vallier based on biochronology (Gautier and Heintz 1974)
thought to be "2.14-1.95 Ma" by Madurell-Malapeira et al. (2014)
Environment
Lithology: siltstone
Habitat comments: the lithology is "limon calcaro-gréseux ocre rosé, plus ou moins induré, á petits graviers et concrétions calcaires et osssements" (meaning a calcareous-sandy silt with gravel, limestone concretions, and bones) (Gautier and Heintz 1974)
the accumulation resulted from a mass mortality event "near a watering point which dried out during an exceptional drought" and there are no traces of porcupine gnawing or long-distance transport (Gautier and Heintz 1974)
the accumulation resulted from a mass mortality event "near a watering point which dried out during an exceptional drought" and there are no traces of porcupine gnawing or long-distance transport (Gautier and Heintz 1974)
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 3418 specimens
Sampling comments: this inventory updates the one given by Gautier and Heintz (1974)
Metadata
Sample number: 4398
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2023-12-06 22:43:29
Modified: 2025-08-17 04:22:40
Abundance distribution
28 species
6 singletons
total count 3418
geometric series index: 43.9
Fisher's α: 4.173
geometric series k: 0.7668
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7163
Shannon's H: 1.5938
Good's u: 0.9982
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Postpalerinaceus cf. vireti | 1 | |
| valid, see van Dam et al. (2020) | ||
| Macaca sp. | 2 | |
| †Paradolichopithecus arvernensis | 1 | |
| †Canis cf. falconeri | 4 | |
| †Vulpes alopecoides | 5 | |
| †Nyctereutes megamastoides | 17 | |
| †Ursus etruscus | 4 | |
| Pliocrocuta perrieri = †Pachycrocuta perrieri | 15 | |
| "Hyaena perrieri" | ||
| †Chasmaporthetes lunensis | 1 | |
| †Megantereon megantereon | 6 | |
| valid: see Li and Sun (2022) | ||
| †Puma cf. pardoides | 7 | |
| "Panthera cf. schaubi": see Cherin et al. (2013) | ||
| †Acinonyx pardinensis | 8 | |
| †Lynx issiodorensis | 3 | |
| Felidae indet. I | 3 | |
| Felidae indet. II | 3 | |
| †Mammuthus meridionalis | 2 | |
| †Stephanorhinus etruscus | 43 | |
| "Dicerorhinus etruscus" | ||
| †Equus stenonis | 1300 | |
| †Croizetoceros ramosus pueblensis | 335 | |
| †Cervus philisi | 2 | |
| "Cervus phillsi" | ||
| †Eucladoceros senezensis vireti | 175 | |
| †Gazella borbonica | 1200 | |
| †Gazellospira torticornis | 150 | |
| †Gallogoral cf. meneghinii | 125 | |
| Parapodemus sp. | 3 | |
| Aquila sp. | 1 | |
| Grus sp. | 1 | |
| Corvus sp. | 1 | |