Box Elder Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Box Elder Creek
Reference: K. S. Smith. 1992. A Holocene mammalian fauna from Box Elder Creek, Caddo County, Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 72:39-44 [ER 3221]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
County: Caddo
Coordinate: 35° 54' N, 98° 22' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Ma: 0.00244
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "At the D.G. Smith Ranch, immediately north of Apache and on the north side of Oklahoma Highway 19" (coordinate based on Apache)
"Unweathered mollusc shells associated with the vertebrate remains, taken from deep in the deposit, were radiocarbon dated (Beta Analytic, Inc. No. 41698) at 2, 440±80 YBP" (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
"Unweathered mollusc shells associated with the vertebrate remains, taken from deep in the deposit, were radiocarbon dated (Beta Analytic, Inc. No. 41698) at 2, 440±80 YBP" (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "A dark silty deposit, presumably the remnants of an old beaver dam" also called a "lens-shaped dark clay deposit"
a single "projectile point" identified "as a Gary point" was found in association with the Odocoileus specimen
a single "projectile point" identified "as a Gary point" was found in association with the Odocoileus specimen
Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 63 specimens
Years: 1990
Net or trap nights: 0
kg screened: 907
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Approximately one ton of the dark matrix was removed and screen-washed" (i.e., 907 kg)
Metadata
Sample no: 3542
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-15 17:23:49
Modified: 2023-09-11 10:47:10
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
4 singletons
total count 63
geometric series index: 22.2
Fisher's α: 3.349
geometric series k: 0.6695
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6157
Shannon's H: 1.4542
Good's u: 0.937
Register
| Scalopus aquaticus | 1 | 94.9 g |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 1 | 1.1 kg |
| Cynomys ludovicianus | 3 | |
| Ictidomys tridecemlineatus | 3 | |
| "Spermophilus tridecemlineatus" | ||
| Geomys bursarius | 9 | |
| "6 upper molars, 1 incisor, and a few partial teeth" (meaning at least two) | ||
| Chaetodipus hispidus | 5 | 30.4 g |
| Peromyscus sp. | 1 | |
| leucopus or maniculatus | ||
| Sigmodon hispidus | 2 | 89.4 g |
| Microtus sp. | 37 | |
| ochrogaster or pinetorum | ||
| Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) | 1 | |