Sunshine Locality (Unit A)
Basic information
Sample name: Sunshine Locality (Unit A)
Reference: G. Huckleberry, C. Beck, G. T. Jones, A. Holmes, M. Cannon, S. Livingston, and J. M. Broughton. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene environmental change at the Sunshine Locality, north-central Nevada, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research 55:303-312 [ER 3215]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Nevada
Coordinate: 39° 43' N, 115° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Section: 3215
Unit number: 1
Unit order: above to below
Ma: 0.00812
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in southern Long Valley, about 60 km northwest of Ely" and shown on a map as immediately west of the Butte Mountains (coordinate based on Butte Mountains)
not directly dated, but there is an uncalibrated date of 8120 +/- 70 14C yr B.P. on the laterally equivalent Unit B
not directly dated, but there is an uncalibrated date of 8120 +/- 70 14C yr B.P. on the laterally equivalent Unit B
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "silty to fine sandy alluvium"
stone tools are inventoried
stone tools are inventoried
Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 162 specimens
Years: 1993
Sampling comments: "In 1993, a 5 x 6 m block was excavated 4 m deep"
there is no discussion of screenwashing
there is no discussion of screenwashing
Metadata
Sample number: 3529
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-11 22:11:57
Modified: 2023-04-29 01:55:37
Abundance distribution
11 species
3 singletons
total count 162
geometric series index: 18.3
Fisher's α: 2.668
geometric series k: 0.6267
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5384
Shannon's H: 1.2854
Good's u: 0.9815
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Oreoscoptes montana | 1 | |
| Brachylagus idahoensis | 11 | 424 g |
| Sylvilagus sp. | 4 | |
| Lepus sp. | 6 | |
| Tamias sp. | 1 | |
| Urocitellus townsendii | 107 | 193 g |
| "Spermophilus townsendii" | ||
| Thomomys bottae | 19 | 128 g |
| Dipodomys ordii | 3 | 48.9 g |
| Peromyscus sp. | 3 | |
| Lemmiscus curtatus | 6 | 30.3 g |
| Artiodactyla indet. | 1 | |