Marine Isotope Stage 5 French Alps Land Snails Data: Readme file
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NOTE: PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL REFERENCE WHEN USING THIS DATA!!!!!


NAME OF DATA SET: Marine Isotope Stage 5 French Alps Land Snails Data
CONTRIBUTOR: Denis-Didier Rousseau

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 1998-033
SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Denis-Didier Rousseau, 1998,
Marine Isotope Stage 5 French Alps Land Snails Data.  
IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology 
Data Contribution Series #1998-033.  
NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

ORIGINAL REFERENCE: Rousseau, D.D., and Puisségur, J.J., 1999, 
Climatic interpretation of terrestrial malacofaunas of the 
last interglacial in south-eastern France. 
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 
v151, No. 4, pp.321-336, 1 August 1999.

LAST UPDATE: 9/98 (Original Receipt by WDCA Paleo)
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: French Alps 
PERIOD OF RECORD: Last Interglacial

LIST OF FILES: Readme.Rousseau1998.txt(this file), Amourette.dat.txt.


DESCRIPTION:
Site location: Latitude: N 44.86, Longitude: E 5.66

Each count was coded for multivariate analysis by transforming the 
values into abundance classes on a logarithmic scale, following the 
method described by Rousseau (1987).

Funding source: French CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), EC-EPOCH

Variables names:
Code DDR	Code used in the paper published in Palaeo-3
Code Puiss	Code of the sampling
Diverity: Shannon index	
Depth DDR (m): Depth calculated from the top of the studied sequence and 
used in the paper.
Elevation (m): real elevation of the samples

A polita: Acicula polita	
C. minimum: Carychium minimum	
C. tridentatum: C. tridentatum
S. oblonga: Succinea oblonga	
S. putris: S. putris	
A. goodalli: Azeca goodalli
C. lubrica: Cochlicopa lubrica
V. antivertigo: Vertigo antivertigo
V. substriata: V. substriata
V. pygmaea: V. pygmaea
V. moulinsiana: V. moulinsiana
V. genesii: V. genesii
V. angustior: V. angustior
O. doliolum: Orcula doliolum
A. secale: Abida secale
P. muscorum: Pupilla muscorum
V. costata: Vallonia costata
V. pulchella: V. pulchella
V. enniensis: V. enniensis
A. aculeata: Acanthinula aculeata
E. montana: Ena montana
E. obscura: E. obscura
P. pygmaeum: Punctum pygmaeum
D. rotundatus: Discus rotundatus
Vitrina sp: Vitrina (undetermined species)
V. subrimata: Vitrea subrimata
V. contracta: Vitrina contracta
N. hammonis: Nesovitrea hammonis
A. pura: Aegopinella pura
A. nitidula: A. nitidula
Oxychilus sp: Oxychilus (undetermined species)
Z. nitidus: Zonitoides nitidus
E. fulvus: Euconulus fulvus
C. parvula: Clausilia parvula
C. bidentata: Cl. bidentata
C. pumila: Cl pumila
P. bidentata: Perforatella bidentata
T. hispida: Trichia hispida
E. strigella: Euomphalia strigella
H. obvoluta: Helicodonta obvoluta
A. arbustorum: Arianta arbustorum
H. lapicida: Helicigona lapicida
Cepaea sp: Cepaea (undetermined species)
C. septemspirale: Cochlostoma septemspirale
Limax sp: Limax (undetermined species) = slugs
Monacha sp: Monacha (undetermined species)