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' 8" N, 2° 45' 41" E
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
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
Created: 2023-12-06 22:43:29
Modified: 2023-12-06 11:43:29
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 | 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 phillisi | 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 | |