Aubignas II
Basic information
Sample name: Aubignas II

Reference: B. Azanza, F. de Broin, A. Galoyer, L. Ginsburg, and S. Zouhri. 1993. Un nouveau site à Mammifères dans le Miocène supérieur d'Aubignas (Ardèche). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II 317:1129-1134 [ER 4397]
Geography
Country: France



Coordinate: 44° 35' N, 4° 38' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN12

Geography comments: "near Aubignas (Ardèche). It is located 3 km north of the town... near the bridge of Vaugourde" (coordinate based on Aubignas)
"referred to the basis of zone MN 12"

Environment
Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: from "one particular level" in a "stratigraphical sequence" and within "un mince niveau des marnes grises contenant des éléments volcaniques" that is "très induré et les restes sont très altérés et calcinés à proximité des basaltes"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sample size: 103 specimens

Sampling comments: "lavage-tamisage de plus de 500 kg de sédiment n'a livré aucun reste de rongeurs" but they are not listed out, unless this refers to Prolagus and Hystrix
"plaques diverses" of Testudo amberiacensis and Ptychogaster (Temnoclemmys) sp. are also present

Metadata
Sample number: 4674

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2025-08-23 01:16:49

Modified: 2025-08-23 01:16:49

Abundance distribution
13 species
6 singletons
total count 103
geometric series index: 30.1
Fisher's α: 3.937
geometric series k: 0.7492
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7850
Shannon's H: 1.8264
Good's u: 0.9421
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Hystrix primigenia1
Prolagus cf. crusafonti1
Felidae indet.1
size of Paramachairodus orientalis
Mustelidae indet.1
Anancus sp.1
compared to
Hipparion truyolsi28
this species is currently valid according to multiple sources: 28 listed specimens and "ossements divers"
Dicerorhinus schleiermacheri = †Dihoplus schleiermacheri7
7 listed specimens and "ossements divers"
Aceratherium incisivum2
Tapiriscus pannonicus2
Microstonyx major = †Hippopotamodon major8
Turiacemas cf. concudensis18
18 listed specimens and "ossements divers"
Bovidae indet.1
"Gazella sp.", plus a "small cervid or Gazella" astragalus
Graecoryx andancensis = †Miotragocerus andancensis32
see Métais and Sen (2018); 32 listed specimens plus "fragments d''ossements divers"