Tarazona 2
Basic information
Sample name: Tarazona 2

Sample aka: TAR2

Reference: M. A. Alvarez-Sierra, I. GarcĂ­a Paredes, and . Pelâez-Campomanes. 2006. Middle Miocene rodents from the Tarazona area (Ebro Basin, Spain). Beitråge zur Palåontologie 30:5-13 [ER 2401]
Geography
Country: Spain



Coordinate: 41° 54' N, 1° 43' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Miocene

Zone: MN5

Ma: 15

Geography comments: coordinate based on Tarazona
MN5, and specifically "late Dd or E" in the zonation of Daams and Freudenthal (1981) (i.e., roughly 15 Ma)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "a silty-clay bed, 20 cm thick, situated about 10 m above the classical Tarazona locality. From top to bottom the colour of this bed goes from dark to light grey. It shows remains of gastropods, clay pebbles and scarce bones fragments"

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 21 specimens

Years: 1999, 2000

Sampling comments: "Some 150 kg of sediment from each level were screened"

Metadata
Sample number: 2599

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-18 16:30:11

Modified: 2017-02-18 05:30:11

Abundance distribution
5 species
3 singletons
total count 21
geometric series index: 14.5
Fisher's α: 2.076
geometric series k: 0.5266
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5310
Shannon's H: 1.0735
Good's u: 0.8571
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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