OMNH locality VI03
Basic information
Sample name: OMNH locality VI03
Sample aka: Black Mesa
Reference: N. J. Czaplewski and K. S. Smith. 2012. Late Pleistocene vertebrates from a rockshelter in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 57(4):399-411 [ER 3112]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
Coordinate: 36° 56' N, 102° 59' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Ma: 0.02398
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in the northwestern corner of Cimarron County... found beneath stratigraphic levels bearing archeological materials attributed to the Basketmaker culture"
there is a "conventional radiocarbon age" of 23,980 +/- 130 YBP on a Mammuthus cf. columbi tooth
there is a "conventional radiocarbon age" of 23,980 +/- 130 YBP on a Mammuthus cf. columbi tooth
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit,rock shelter,rodent accumulation
Habitat comments: "stream-laid deposits of sand and mud" within a rockshelter
there are "preparation-tool marks on some" of the fossils and "no obvious evidence of modification of bones such as gnawing by carnivores or scavengers, spiral fracturing, or tooth-puncture marks. Accumulation of some of the smaller bones by rabbits or rodents... is possible... several agents of accumulation" may have "acted together"
there are "preparation-tool marks on some" of the fossils and "no obvious evidence of modification of bones such as gnawing by carnivores or scavengers, spiral fracturing, or tooth-puncture marks. Accumulation of some of the smaller bones by rabbits or rodents... is possible... several agents of accumulation" may have "acted together"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 63 specimens
Metadata
Sample number: 3399
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 07:41:49
Modified: 2023-02-25 11:39:14
Abundance distribution
15 species
6 singletons
total count 63
geometric series index: 33.2
Fisher's α: 6.229
geometric series k: 0.8019
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8287
Shannon's H: 2.1969
Good's u: 0.9053
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Register
| Branta canadensis | 1 | 4.1 g folivore |
| Cynomys sp. | 3 | |
| Neotoma sp. | 1 | |
| Lepus sp. | 1 | |
| Sylvilagus sp. | 3 | |
| Vulpes velox | 1 | 2.4 kg carnivore |
| Canis latrans | 5 | 12 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Canis lupus | 3 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Lynx sp. | 1 | |
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| Mammuthus cf. columbi | 2 | |
| Equus cf. conversidens | 1 | |
| Equus cf. niobrarensis | 22 | |
| Camelops hesternus | 7 | |
| Antilocapridae indet. | 7 | |
| Bison sp. | 5 | |