Prairie Creek (Zone D)
Basic information
Sample name: Prairie Creek (Zone D)
Reference: R. L. Richards. 1992. Small mammals of the Prairie Creek Site, Daviess County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 101(3-4):245-278 [ER 3206]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Coordinate: 38° 43' 4" N, 87° 9' 55" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Section: 3206
Unit number: 3
Unit order: above to below
Ma: 0.01401
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "approximately 3 miles north of the city of Washington" according to Tomak (1974) (coordinate based on Prairie Creek Site)
there is "A radiocarbon date of 14,010 +/- 140 B.P. (DIC-234) on a spruce log" from this zone (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
there is "A radiocarbon date of 14,010 +/- 140 B.P. (DIC-234) on a spruce log" from this zone (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: mudstone
Taphonomic context: lake deposit
Habitat comments: a glacial lake that "accumulated up to 6 feet of organic mucks and biotic remains"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other small mammals,snakes,turtles,frogs,salamanders
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 1318 specimens
Years: 1974, 1975
Sampling comments: "Materials were recovered by trowling, with all matrix dry screened through 1/4" hardware mesh"
fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and large mammals were to be described elsewhere
small mammals are documented by Richards (1992), and Holman and Richards (1993) document the amphibians and reptiles
fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and large mammals were to be described elsewhere
small mammals are documented by Richards (1992), and Holman and Richards (1993) document the amphibians and reptiles
Metadata
Sample number: 3517
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-10 21:49:14
Modified: 2023-04-29 01:46:54
Abundance distribution
34 species
9 singletons
total count 1318
geometric series index: 58.1
Fisher's α: 6.371
geometric series k: 0.8199
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6731
Shannon's H: 1.7092
Good's u: 0.9932
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Register
| Blarina brevicauda | 10 | 15.1 g |
| Cryptotis parva | 1 | 4.3 g |
| Sorex cinereus | 5 | 4.1 g |
| Condylura cristata | 5 | 52.2 g |
| Scalopus aquaticus | 3 | 94.9 g |
| Pekania pennanti | 7 | 3.8 kg |
| "Martes pennanti" | ||
| Neogale frenata | 1 | 144 g carnivore |
| "Mustela frenata" | ||
| Neogale vison | 6 | 950 g |
| "Mustela vison" | ||
| Marmota monax | 2 | 4.5 kg |
| Tamias striatus | 6 | 113 g frugivore-insectivore |
| Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | 3 | 187 g |
| Peromyscus sp. | 3 | |
| Myodes gapperi | 1 | 24.1 g |
| "Clethrionomys gapperi" | ||
| Microtus pennsylvanicus | 8 | 35.7 g |
| Microtus xanthognathus | 8 | 68.5 g |
| Ondatra zibethicus | 702 | 1.1 kg |
| Synaptomys sp. | 2 | |
| Zapus hudsonius | 1 | 15.6 g |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 1 | 1.1 kg herbivore |
| Ambystoma sp. | 1 | |
| Anaxyrus sp. | 1 | |
| "Bufo sp." | ||
| Lithobates catesbeianus | 6 | |
| "Rana catesbeiana" | ||
| Lithobates clamitans | 13 | |
| "Rana clamitans" | ||
| Lithobates pipiens-complex | 37 | |
| "Rana pipiens complex" | ||
| Lithobates sylvaticus | 2 | |
| "Rana sylvatica" | ||
| Chelydra serpentina | 150 | |
| Sternotherus odoratus | 1 | |
| Chrysemys picta | 213 | |
| Emydoidea blandingii | 49 | |
| Graptemys sp. | 2 | |
| Pseudemys sp. | 24 | |
| "cooter" | ||
| Apalone spinifera | 2 | |
| Nerodia erythrogaster | 1 | |
| Thamnophis sp. | 41 | |