Hosterman's Pit
Basic information
Sample name: Hosterman's Pit
Reference: J. E. Guilday. 1967. The climatic significance of the Hosterman's Pit local fauna, Centre County, Pennsylvania. American Antiquity 32(2):231-232 [ER 3205]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Coordinate: 40° 53' 34" N, 77° 26' 22" W
Time interval: Holocene
Ma: 0.00924
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "a limestone cave in Centre County... elev. 1240 ft."
there is a date on the charcoal of 7290 B.C. +/- 1000 (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
there is a date on the charcoal of 7290 B.C. +/- 1000 (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: cave,pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "a deposit of intermingled talus, animal bones, and charcoal... The bones were presumed to be the remains of animals that fell down these former sinkholes"
Methods
Life forms: bats,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,snakes
Sample size: 21 specimens
Years: 1961, 1962
Metadata
Sample number: 3516
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-10 20:22:00
Modified: 2023-04-03 08:55:45
Abundance distribution
11 species
10 singletons
total count 21
geometric series index: 133.1
Fisher's α: 9.332
geometric series k: 0.7868
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6881
Shannon's H: 1.7885
Good's u: 0.5238
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| Colubridae indet. | 1 | |
| Viperidae indet. | 1 | |
| Crotalus or Agkistrodon | ||
| Myotis keenii | 1 | 4.7 g insectivore |
| Myotis lucifugus | 1 | 7.4 g insectivore |
| Glaucomys volans | 1 | 67.4 g |
| Synaptomys cooperi | 1 | 29.0 g |
| Microtus pinetorum | 11 | 24.0 g |
| "Pitymys pinetorum" | ||
| Erethizon dorsatum | 1 | 9.9 kg herbivore |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 1 | 1.1 kg herbivore |
| Odocoileus virginianus | 1 | 75 kg herbivore |
| Cervus canadensis | 1 | 329 kg browser-grazer |