Laubach Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Laubach Cave
Reference: B. H. Slaughter. 1966. Platygonus compressus and associated fauna from the Laubach Cave of Texas. American Midland Naturalist 75(2):475-494 [ER 3113]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Texas
County: Williamson
Coordinate: 31° 39' N, 98° 41' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "in Georgetown" (basis of coordinate)
age unclear, but possibly "belongs to the last major interglacial or interstadial, i.e., 25, 000-45, 000 B.P."
age unclear, but possibly "belongs to the last major interglacial or interstadial, i.e., 25, 000-45, 000 B.P."
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation, cave, pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "a sealed cave" with a "rubble cone" discovered by drilling
bones were of "animals known to frequent caves" or "brought into caves by carnivorous mammals and birds" and "the elephant and camel... must have fallen into the almost vertical cave entrance"
bones were of "animals known to frequent caves" or "brought into caves by carnivorous mammals and birds" and "the elephant and camel... must have fallen into the almost vertical cave entrance"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other small mammals
Excluded forms: bats, rodents
Sampling methods: surface
Sample size: 61 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: material was present at the surface
listed Platygonus material is only of dentitions, but "A surprisingly small number of postcranial elements were recovered"
Myotis sp, Neotoma sp, and Cynonyms ludovicianus are present but not catalogued
listed Platygonus material is only of dentitions, but "A surprisingly small number of postcranial elements were recovered"
Myotis sp, Neotoma sp, and Cynonyms ludovicianus are present but not catalogued
Metadata
Sample no: 3400
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 08:10:46
Modified: 2019-08-29 22:11:44
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
8 species
5 singletons
total count 61
geometric series index: 26.8
Fisher's α: 2.462
geometric series k: 0.5843
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4593
Shannon's H: 1.0044
Good's u: 0.9186
Register
| Sylvilagus sp. | 1 | |
| Canis latrans (coyote) | 1 | 12.0 kg |
| †Aenocyon cf. dirus (dire wolf) | 2 | |
| "Canis cf. dirus" | ||
| Lynx rufus (bobcat) | 1 | |
| Panthera onca augusta (jaguar) | 11 | |
| †Platygonus compressus (peccary) | 43 | |
| Camelops sp. | 1 | |
| Proboscidea indet. | 1 | |