Villarroya 88-89
Basic information
Sample name: Villarroya 88-89

Reference: S. Jiménez García, S. Martín de Jesús, and E. M. Jiménez Fuentes. 1999. Primeros resultados de la excavación "Villarroya 88-89" (La Rioja, España). Studia Geologica Salamanticensia 35:41-56 [ER 4022]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: La Rioja



Coordinate: 42.11° N, -2.08° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Pliocene

Zone: MN16

Geography comments: "en el fondo del llamado barranco del Vallejo, cerca del lugar conocido por La Horna o barranco de los Huesos, a unos 3 km al SW del pueblo de Villarroya" near the border of Muro de Aguas municipality
coordinate estimated from a map of this area
MN16a (early MN16 is Pliocene, late MN16b ranges into the Early Pleistocene)

Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit,paleosol

Habitat comments: from a "ganga arcillo-arenosa, ligeramente carbonatada" (sandy-clay loam, slightly carbonated) in a fluvial channel

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 48 specimens

Years: 1988 - 1989

Sampling comments: this is a new collection from the classic locality of Villarroya: there were four earlier major excavations
these specimens are reposited at the Universidad de Salamanca
two cubic meters were excavated

Metadata
Sample number: 4438

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-09 23:10:58

Modified: 2024-11-09 23:10:58

Abundance distribution
8 species
1 singleton
total count 48
geometric series index: 12.7
Fisher's α: 2.741
geometric series k: 0.6473
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7349
Shannon's H: 1.6484
Good's u: 0.9808
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Plesiohipparion rocinantis21
Megantereon cultridens1
Vulpes alopecoides2
plus 1 medium-sized carnivore femur
Croizetoceros ramosus7
Cervus perrieri3
plus 34 Cervidae indet.
Gazella borbonica9
includes 7 probably specimens probably belonging to this species
Gazellospira torticornis2
Leptobos elatus3
plus 7 Bovidae indet. and numerous indeterminate artiodactyl and mammal fossils