Punta Lucero III (Level F)
Basic information
Sample name: Punta Lucero III (Level F)
Reference: A. Alvarez-Vena, A. B. Marín-Arroyo, D. J. Alvarez-Lao, C. Laplana, M. Arriolabengoa, D. Ballesteros, A. Aranburu, P. Bilbao, A. Astorqui, and Y. Díaz-Casado. 2023. Mammalian turnover as an indicator of climatic and anthropogenic landscape modification: A new Meghalayan record (Late Holocene) in northern Iberia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 616(111476):1-21 [ER 3935]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 43° 21' 34" N, 3° 6' 11" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Holocene
Ma: 0.00383
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in the municipality of Zierbena/Ciervana (Bizkaia, Basque Country, northern Spain)"
there is an uncalibrated 14C date of 1040 +/- 30 BP on charcoal at this level, but it is rejected as "likely an outlier" and an uncalibrated date on bone of 3830 +/- 30 BP also from level F is preferred
there is an uncalibrated 14C date of 1040 +/- 30 BP on charcoal at this level, but it is rejected as "likely an outlier" and an uncalibrated date on bone of 3830 +/- 30 BP also from level F is preferred
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave
Habitat comments: "a karst shaft (vertical cave)" developed within a "Lower Cretaceous limestone (calcarenite)"
there are carnivore tooth marks on 5.3% of the bones at this level, with no "butchery or burning (cooking) features"
level F includes "greyish sediment" that is "loamy" and "sedimentary"
there are carnivore tooth marks on 5.3% of the bones at this level, with no "butchery or burning (cooking) features"
level F includes "greyish sediment" that is "loamy" and "sedimentary"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 2351 specimens
Years: 2019
Sampling comments: the material is from "rescue excavations" in an active commercial quarry
small mammals were recovered from "water-screened" samples using a 0.5 mm mesh size, and large mammals "were recovered directly from the excavation surface"
small mammals were recovered from "water-screened" samples using a 0.5 mm mesh size, and large mammals "were recovered directly from the excavation surface"
Metadata
Sample number: 4339
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-08-11 16:08:46
Modified: 2023-08-11 06:08:46
Abundance distribution
23 species
1 singleton
total count 2351
geometric series index: 25.7
Fisher's α: 3.538
geometric series k: 0.7403
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8185
Shannon's H: 2.1443
Good's u: 0.9996
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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| Microtus (Agricola) lavernedii | 746 | |
| Microtus (Terricola) sp. | 176 | |
| "ex gr. lusitanicus-duodecemcostatus" | ||
| Microtus gerbii | 57 | |
| "Microtus (Terricola) pyrenaicus" | ||
| Myodes glareolus | 16 | |
| "Clethrionomys glareolus" | ||
| Mus musculus | 2 | 17.6 g |
| Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sylvaticus | 315 | |
| Micromys minutus | 19 | |
| Sorex minutus | 35 | |
| Sorex coronatus | 532 | |
| Neomys anomalus | 32 | |
| Crocidura russula | 15 | |
| Crocidura gueldenstaedtii | 96 | |
| Talpa aquitania | 20 | |
| Erinaceus europaeus | 1 | |
| Equus sp. | 15 | |
| Bos taurus | 13 | 337 kg |
| "Bos primigenius taurus" | ||
| Caprinae indet. | 8 | |
| Capra or Ovis | ||
| Cervus elaphus | 106 | 142 kg browser-grazer |
| Capreolus capreolus | 34 | 22 kg browser |
| Sus scrofa | 41 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 17 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Meles meles | 49 | 10 kg invertivore-herbivore |