Boh Dambang
Basic information
Sample name: Boh Dambang

Reference: A.-M. Bacon, P. Duringer, K. Westaway, R. Joannes-Boyau, J.-X. Zhao, N. Bourgon, E. Dufour, S. Pheng, S. Tep, J.-L. Ponche, L. Barnes, A. Blin, E. Patole-Edoumba, and F. Demeter. 2018. Testing the savannah corridor hypothesis during MIS2: The Boh Dambang hyena site in southern Cambodia. Quaternary International 464:417-439 [ER 3075]
Geography
Country: Cambodia


Coordinate: 10° 40' 47" N, 104° 16' 35" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.025

Min Ma: 0.018

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "less than 15 km from the Kampot city"
based on a series of luminescene, ESR, and U/Th dates, most of the fauna is "25-18 ka (MIS2)"

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave

Habitat comments: "karstic" and a "cave site"
lithology is a "light brown sandy and silty clay, enriched in places by iron-rich pisolites, sometimes with small gravel and caliches. No obvious beds or vertical changes in the deposits have been observed... The taphonomic analysis reveals that remains were mainly accumulated by hyenas"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 498 specimens

Sampling comments: "we identified taxa by isolated teeth only, since most of the severely damaged skeletal remains could not be used for taxonomic purposes"

Metadata
Sample number: 3348

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-25 17:37:07

Modified: 2019-08-25 10:53:03

Abundance distribution
16 species
0 singletons
total count 498
geometric series index: 18.0
Fisher's α: 3.158
geometric series k: 0.7753
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8908
Shannon's H: 2.3762
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Cervus unicolor57100 kg grazer-browser
"Rusa unicolor"
Cervus eldii59
"Rucervus eldii"
Muntiacus vaginalis33
compared to "Muntiacus muntjak": reassignment is based on geography
Bos cf. gaurus47481 kg
compared to "Bos frontalis": English name given as "gaur"
Bubalus arnee56
"Bubalus bubalis": not domesticated
Capricornis cf. sumatraensis21
Sus cf. scrofa5954 kg herbivore
Rhinocerotidae indet.5
Canis aureus79.9 kg carnivore-frugivore
Prionailurus bengalensis23.4 kg carnivore
Panthera cf. pardus533 kg carnivore
Ursus thibetanus563 kg browser-frugivore
Crocuta ultima91
"Crocuta crocuta ultima"
Macaca sp.6
Pongo pygmaeus752 kg frugivore-folivore
Hystrix cf. brachyura38