Sondershausen
Basic information
Sample name: Sondershausen

Reference: M. Hellmund and R. Ziegler. 2012. A Ruscinian mammalian microfauna from a fissure filling near Sondershausen (Thuringia, Central Germany). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 131:77-94 [ER 2364]
Geography
Country: Germany

Coordinate: 51° 21' 28" N, 11° 55' 18" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Early Pliocene

Zone: MN15

Geography comments: "2 km south of the city of Sondershausen"
"The fauna as a whole correlates with the late Ruscinian Unit MN 15"

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Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: "The karst fissure is more or less vertically oriented with a maximum width of ca. 50 cm... The fissure filling is a yellowish to brown, decalcified, in fresh state ductile lubricating clay"

Methods
Life forms: bats, rodents, other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 621 specimens

Years: 1995

Net or trap nights: 0

kg screened: 300

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "A sample of ca. 300 kg from near the top down to a depth of 180 cm has been taken... The sampled material was screen-washed with several sieves down to a mesh of 0.5 mm"

Metadata
Sample no: 2537

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-14 20:06:16

Modified: 2023-09-08 11:54:54

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
3 singletons
total count 621
geometric series index: 21.8
Fisher's α: 2.325
geometric series k: 0.6015
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4607
Shannon's H: 1.037
Good's u: 0.9952
Register
†Sorex cf. polonicus (shrew)16
Sorex minutus (Eurasian pygmy shrew)2
†Beremendia fissidens 1
Blarinoides mariae 2
Myotis sp. I 53
Myotis sp. II 73
Blackia miocaenica 1
†Eomyops aff. bodvanus 1
†Glis minor 446
†Apodemus atavus (field mouse)17
Cseria cf. gracilis 3
Baranomys cf. longidens 2
Bjornkurtenia cf. canterranensis 4