Dabeigou
Basic information
Sample name: Dabeigou

Sample aka: Qianxian

Reference: Z. Qin. 1984. Several paleoliths from Qianxian, Shaanxi. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 3(3):212-214 [ER 3820]
Geography
Country: China

State: Shaanxi


Coordinate: 34.45° N, 108.17° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: from the vicinity of a dam at the Dabeigou Reservoir (basis of coordinate)
Qianxian is a county (xian means county)
Late Pleistocene age assignment is based on the fauna

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Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: from variegated clay, sand and small gravel overlain by a loess and then a paleosol
eight stone artefacts are associated with the fossils
paleoenvironment and accumulation mode are unclear

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals

Sample size: 48 specimens

Years: 1963

Sampling comments: apparently collected by the author
not clear whether this is a surface or excavated collection

Metadata
Sample number: 4165

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-03-15 12:22:44

Modified: 2023-03-15 01:22:44

Abundance distribution
9 species
3 singletons
total count 48
geometric series index: 18.8
Fisher's α: 3.270
geometric series k: 0.6687
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6746
Shannon's H: 1.5541
Good's u: 0.9392
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Register
Scaptochirus sp.5
Eospalax fontanierii8
"Myospalax fontanieri"
Microtus sp.3
Cervus nippon2103 kg
"Pseudaxis sp." and "spotted deer", apparently meaning Cervus nippon pseudaxis
Megaloceros sp.1
Capreolus sp.1
Gazella sp.1
Coelodonta antiquitatis2
Equus ferus przewalskii25422 kg
"Equus przewalskyi"