Monticino Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Monticino Quarry

Reference: A. Villa, G. Carnevale, M. Pavia, L. Rook, M. Sami, Z. Szyndlar, and M. Delfino. 2021. An overview of the late miocene vertebrates from the fissure fillings of Monticino quarry (Brisighella, Italy), with new data on non-mammalian taxa. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 127(2):297-354 [ER 4027]
Geography
Country: Italy

State: Ravenna


Coordinate: 44.2° N, 11.8° E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Formation: Colombacci

Time interval: Late Miocene

Zone: MN13

Geography comments: "The strict local and regional geological constraints (Marabini & Vai 1989; Vai 1989) allowed a correlation of the vertebrate assemblage with the latest Messinian and with the European land Mammal Age Mn 13"

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fissure fill

Habitat comments: "marly-clays, fine grained conglomerates and sand lenses"

Methods
Life forms: fishes,salamanders,frogs,turtles,lizards,snakes,birds,other reptiles

Sample size: 3462 specimens

Sampling comments: "fossils of non-mammalian vertebrates from Monticino Quarry are stored either at the Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy) or at the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Faenza (Faenza, Italy)"

Metadata
Sample number: 4443

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: Nicholas Vine

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-10 10:12:42

Modified: 2024-11-11 06:06:13

Abundance distribution
39 species
11 singletons
total count 3462
geometric series index: 68.3
Fisher's α: 6.158
geometric series k: 0.8110
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3081
Shannon's H: 0.8799
Good's u: 0.9968
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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