Zhukovskoe (Bed 6)
Basic information
Sample name: Zhukovskoe (Bed 6)

Reference: A. P. Derevyanko, K. A. Amirkhanov, M. V. Shun'kov, A. K. Agadjanian, and V. A. Ul'yanov. 2010. New Locality of Pliocene Faunal Remains and Lower Paleolithic in Ciscaucasia. Doklady Earth Sciences 434(1):1152-1155 [ER 3913]
Geography
Country: Russia

State: Stavropol


Coordinate: 44.770668° N, 43.164612° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pliocene

Unit number: 6

Unit order: above to below

Ma: 2

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "Situated in the near-summit part of a dry ravine, which crosses the right slope of the Tomuzlovka River valley 0.5 km east of the Hamlet of Zhukovskii"

The faunal remains suggest an age of at least Late Pliocene (~ 2 Ma)

Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: Bed 6 is comprised of "light gray well-sorted slightly cemented thin-bedded sands with intercalations of a fine-grained and low clay admixture"

It should be noted that Paleolithic stone tools were recovered from BED 7

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals,other reptiles,frogs

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 30 specimens

Sampling comments: "Washing of sandy sediments...yielded bone remains of small vertebrates belonging to 13 taxa"

A marine mollusc was found with no counts included

Counts excluded:
Promimomys sp. (small form) - 2
Promimomys sp. - 4
Rodentia indet. /"Rodentia gen." - 1
Leporinae indet. /"Leporinae gen." - 4

Metadata
Sample number: 4314

Contributor: Jack Nesbitt

Enterer: Jack Nesbitt

Created: 2023-06-26 12:53:28

Modified: 2023-06-26 02:59:17

Abundance distribution
9 species
3 singletons
total count 30
geometric series index: 20.0
Fisher's α: 4.359
geometric series k: 0.7598
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8069
Shannon's H: 1.8867
Good's u: 0.9065
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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