Corral de Lobato
Basic information
Sample name: Corral de Lobato

Reference: D. Sanz-Pérez, M. Hérnandez Fernández, M. B. Muñoz-García, P. Pérez-Dios, J. Morales, and L. Domingo. 2020. Palaeoecological and palaeoenviromental reconstruction of the upper Miocene vertebrate karstic site of Corral de Lobato, central-eastern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 556(109877):1-13 [ER 4008]
Geography
Country: Spain

State: Guadalajara


Coordinate: 40° 49' 50" N, 1° 51' 50" W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN13

Ma: 6.9

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "near the town of Molina de Aragón" in Guadalajara
coordinate based on Fig. 2C
correlated with the "base of the MN13" or "at the boundary between MN12 and MN13" by comparison with Mont Leberon, and therefore believed to be 7.1 Ma; however, the boundary is actually at 6.965 Ma according to Ezquerro et al. (2022), so I have entered an estimate of 6.9 Ma

Environment
Lithology: breccia

Habitat comments: "The sediments, where the remains of medium- and large-sized mammals were found... comprise a heterogeneous karst infill including bone cemented breccia and other deposits... The bone breccia is thin, on the order of decimetres"
"We interpreted that this unit was deposited in a fluvial-lacustrine environment"
there is no discussion of whether the deposit might represent a pitfall trap

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,surface

Sample size: 661 specimens

Years: 2012 - 2014

Sampling comments: apparently mostly a surface collection, but "In addition, a very small area of around 20 m2 was excavated" during 2012, 2013, and 2014
"This material is in the National Museum of Natural Sciences - CSIC"
specimen counts are not given, but percentages in Table 1 were easily converted

Metadata
Sample number: 4421

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-03 03:15:11

Modified: 2024-11-03 03:15:11

Abundance distribution
11 species
1 singleton
total count 661
geometric series index: 15.3
Fisher's α: 1.874
geometric series k: 0.5306
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2638
Shannon's H: 0.6789
Good's u: 0.9985
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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