King Leo Pit Cave
Basic information
Sample name: King Leo Pit Cave
Reference: R. L. Richards and J. N. McDonald. 1991. New records of Harlan's muskox (Bootherium bombifrons) and an associated fauna from the late Pleistocene of Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 99:211-228 [ER 3133]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Indiana
County: Harrison
Coordinate: 38° 12' N, 86° 7' W
Latlng basis: based on political unit
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: no details of the location are given at all (coordinate based on Harrison County)
"Muskox bone scrap (591 gm) produced too little collagen to be reliable for radiocarbon dating"
"Muskox bone scrap (591 gm) produced too little collagen to be reliable for radiocarbon dating"
Environment
Lithology: siltstone
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: the "former entrance once likely provided access for the muskoxen or their remains" which were "unburied... Many smaller elements, however, were buried and better preserved... The sediments consisted of approximately 10-20 cm of silt"
Methods
Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, snakes, salamanders, fishes
Sampling methods: screenwash, surface
Sample size: 296 specimens
Years: 1976
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "remains were recovered by washing ca .34 m3 (38 gal.) of sediment through 1.2 mm mesh hardware cloth"
Metadata
Sample no: 3420
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-31 22:54:43
Modified: 2019-08-31 12:54:43
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
27 species
4 singletons
total count 296
geometric series index: 41.2
Fisher's α: 7.225
geometric series k: 0.8466
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8751
Shannon's H: 2.5404
Good's u: 0.9866
Register
| Osteichthyes indet. | 3 | |
| "fish" | ||
| Eurycea lucifuga | 4 | |
| Colubridae indet. | 3 | |
| Blarina brevicauda | 9 | 15.1 g |
| Cryptotis parva | 1 | 4.3 g |
| Sorex cinereus | 1 | 4.1 g |
| Sorex cf. fumeus | 5 | 8.5 g |
| Sorex hoyi | 1 | |
| Sorex sp. | 3 | |
| "small sp." | ||
| Myotis sp. A | 13 | |
| compared to keeni and grisescens | ||
| Myotis cf. leibii | 10 | |
| Myotis sp. B | 76 | |
| compared to lucifugus, sodalis, and austroriparius | ||
| Perimyotis subflavus | 7 | 5.0 g |
| "Pipistrellus subflavus" | ||
| Plecotus sp. | 51 | |
| Pekania pennanti (fisher) | 1 | |
| "Martes pennanti" | ||
| Glaucomys sp. | 2 | |
| Sciurus sp. | 2 | |
| Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | 8 | 187.0 g |
| Peromyscus cf. leucopus | 2 | 21.0 g |
| Peromyscus cf. maniculatus | 29 | 19.1 g |
| Myodes gapperi | 17 | |
| "Clethrionomys gapperi" | ||
| Microtus pennsylvanicus | 3 | 35.7 g |
| Microtus cf. ochrogaster | 5 | 33.9 g |
| Microtus cf. pinetorum | 2 | |
| Phenacomys intermedius | 9 | 23.5 g |
| Leporidae indet. | 27 | |
| Sylvilagus or Lepus | ||
| †Bootherium bombifrons | 2 | |