Saber-tooth Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Saber-tooth Cave
Reference: G. G. Simpson. 1928. Pleistocene mammals from a cave in Citrus County, Florida. American Museum Novitates 328:1-16 [ER 3117]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Florida
County: Citrus
Coordinate: 28° 51' N, 82° 29' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "on the property of Mr. D. J. Allen, one mile northwest of Lecanto" (coordinate based on Lecanto)
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: cave,pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "a deposit of red earth or clay" yielded the fauna, and there was also "a younger bed of sand and humus... with numerous remains of the recent white-tailed deer... The cave no doubt served as a trap and also as a sink catching the debris of floods"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sample size: 147 specimens
Years: 1928
Sampling comments: there was a "thorough search" but excavation per se is not discussed
non-mammalian vertebrates are not inventoried
non-mammalian vertebrates are not inventoried
Metadata
Sample number: 3405
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 13:47:07
Modified: 2019-08-30 03:47:07
Abundance distribution
25 species
8 singletons
total count 147
geometric series index: 48.1
Fisher's α: 8.651
geometric series k: 0.8541
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8646
Shannon's H: 2.5383
Good's u: 0.9458
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Register
| Didelphis virginiana | 14 | 2.2 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| Scalopus sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 6 | 1.1 kg herbivore |
| Sylvilagus palustris | 6 | |
| Geomys pinetis floridanus | 6 | 138 g |
| "Geomys floridanus" | ||
| Thomomys orientalis | 1 | |
| type | ||
| Sigmodon hispidus | 44 | 89.4 g |
| Oryzomys palustris | 5 | 42.4 g |
| Neofiber alleni | 22 | 258 g |
| †Synaptomys australis | 1 | |
| type | ||
| †Neochoerus aesopi | 3 | |
| "Hydrochoerus holmesi" | ||
| †Aenocyon dirus | 4 | |
| "Canis (Aenocyon) ayersi" | ||
| Urocyon sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Lynx rufus | 2 | 9.0 kg carnivore |
| Smilodon sp. | 3 | |
| Mephitis mephitis elongata | 1 | 1.5 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| "Mephitis elongata" | ||
| †Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii | 4 | |
| "Megalonyx cf. wheatleyi": see discussion in Kurten and Anderson 1980 | ||
| †Holmesina septentrionalis | 1 | |
| "Chlamytherium septentrionale" | ||
| Dasypus sp. | 1 | |
| "Tatu sp." | ||
| †Equus cf. leidyi | 7 | |
| †Tapirus cf. copei | 3 | |
| "Tapirus cf. haysii" | ||
| Odocoileus virginianus osceola | 3 | 75 kg herbivore |
| "Odocoileus osceola" (two specimens) and "Blastocerus extraneus" (type) | ||
| Camelidae indet. | 2 | |
| †Mylohyus cf. fossilis | 5 | |
| "Mylohyus cf. browni" | ||
| †Mammut americanum | 1 | |
| "Mastodon americanus" | ||