Caverna degli Orsi (sondage A, Unit 10.1)
Basic information
Sample name: Caverna degli Orsi (sondage A, Unit 10.1)

Reference: C. Berto and G. Rubinato. 2013. The upper Pleistocene mammal record from Caverna degli Orsi (San Dorligo della Valle - Dolina, Trieste, Italy): A faunal complex between eastern and western Europe. Quaternary International 284:7-14 [ER 3095]
Geography
Country: Italy

Coordinate: 45° 37' N, 13° 51' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "about 12 km SE from Trieste, in the karst territory of San Dorligo della Valle - Dolina... on the northwestern slope of Monte Carso" (coordinate based on San Dorligo della Valle)
there is "no geochronometric dating" but faunal and archaeological evidence suggests that the sequence spans "MIS 5 to 2"
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Climate and habitat
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: "silty clay loam or clay loam"
there are artifacts "ascribed to Mousterian industry" from Units 11 and 13 in sondage A and 118 and 120 in sondage B
this was "a cave frequented by cave bears and other large carnivores with sporadic human presence" but the mode of accumulation is not discussed
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 38
Sampling comments: excavations were "carried out between 1993 and 2004"
Metadata
Sample: 3375
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-27 15:29:52
Modified: 2019-08-27 15:37:49
Abundance distribution
12 species
5 singletons
total count 38
standardised richness: not computable
Fisher's α: 6.040
geometric series k: 0.8278
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8606
Shannon's H: 2.1944
Good's u: 0.8698
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Sicista betulina1
Myodes glareolus8
"Clethrionomys glareolus"
Chionomys nivalis8
Dinaromys bogdanovi2
Microtus agrestis1
Microtus arvalis4
Microtus oeconomus136.5 g
Microtus (Terricola) gr. multiplex-subterraneus1
Apodemus sp.3
Apodemus (Sylvaemus) sp.5
Rattus sp.1
Glis glis3