Zesch Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Zesch Cave
Sample aka: TMM 40685
Reference: J. C. Sagebiel. 2010. Late Pleistocene fauna from Zesch Cave, Mason County, Texas. Quaternary International 217:159-174 [ER 3070]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Mason
Coordinate: 31° 45' N, 99° 15' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "4 km west of Mason"
"Rancholabrean" (no further age information is given)
"Rancholabrean" (no further age information is given)
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: breccia
Taphonomic context: bird accumulation, pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "a karst collapse breccia with grain sizes ranging from mud (less than 10%) to small boulders (76 cm diameter)... the Zesch Cave local fauna probably is the result of raptor accumulation. However, there is good evidence that Zesch Cave was also a carnivore trap"
Methods
Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, other reptiles, frogs, salamanders, fishes
Sample size: 1346 specimens
Years: 1982
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Boyce Cabaniss collected most of the fossils that are the basis of the present study in the summer of 1982"
Metadata
Sample no: 3343
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-25 16:02:33
Modified: 2019-08-29 22:17:12
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
67 species
18 singletons
total count 1346
geometric series index: 109.4
Fisher's α: 14.824
geometric series k: 0.9191
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9094
Shannon's H: 3.0519
Good's u: 0.9866
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