Cheremukhovo-1 (Bed 8)
Basic information
Sample name: Cheremukhovo-1 (Bed 8)

Reference: T. V. Strukova, O. P. Bachura, A. V. Borodin, and V. V. Stefanovskii. 2006. Mammal fauna first found in alluvial-speleogenic formations of the late Neopleistocene and Holocene, northern Urals, locality Cheremukhovo-1. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 14(1):91-101 [ER 3798]
Geography
Country: Russia

State: Sverdlovsk Oblast

Coordinate: 60° 24' 3" N, 60° 3' 26" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Pleistocene - Holocene

Section: 3798

Unit number: 7

Unit order: above to below

Age basis: radiocarbon

Geography comments: "Cheremukhovo-1 is one of several karst caves of the Chertovo Gordishche rocky massif situated on the Sos’va River, 3.5 km upstream of the Shegul’tan River mouth in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia".
Bed 8 contains a mix of Late Pleistocene and Holocene features, "most likely due to redeposition of bones of different ages".

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "The cave is situated 5.5 m above the river flood plain, and is 32 m long in total. Bed 8 consists of brown polymictic fine-grained silty sand compact to a certain extent and containing limestone debris. The faunal remains represent a typical cave burial in terms of bone sets and their preservation state. Lithic artifacts consist of 21 items of knapped flint found only in two beds: 20 from Bed 7 and one from Bed 10".

Methods
Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 124 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Metadata
Sample no: 4140

Contributor no: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2023-02-27 16:40:06

Modified: 2023-05-30 05:51:03

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
16 species
2 singletons
total count 124
geometric series index: 23.5
Fisher's α: 4.89
geometric series k: 0.8048
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8728
Shannon's H: 2.3378
Good's u: 0.984
Register
Sorex sp. 2
Chiroptera indet.1
Ochotona pusilla 3
Lepus timidus 23
"Lepus tanaiticus"
Myodes rufocanus 26
"Clethrionomys rufocanus"
Myodes rutilus 8
"Clethrionomys rutilus"
Dicrostonyx gulielmi 7
Lemmus sp. 19
Stenocranius gregalis 13
"Microtus gregalis"
Alexandromys oeconomus 5
"Microtus oeconomus"
Alexandromys middendorffi 3
"Microtus middendorffii"; also 75 "Microtus" sp.
Vulpes lagopus (Arctic fox)3
"Alopex lagopus"
Equus ferus uralensis (wild horse)3
Rangifer tarandus (reindeer)469.0 kg
Bison priscus (bison)1
Aves indet.3