Lang Trang (Cave II, breccia 5)
Basic information
Sample name: Lang Trang (Cave II, breccia 5)

Reference: V. T. Long, J. de Vos, and R. L. Ciochon. 1996. The fossil mammal fauna of the Lang Trang Caves, Vietnam, compared with southeast Asian fossil and Recent mammal faunas: the geographical implications. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin 14:101-109 [ER 3838]
Geography
Country: Vietnam

State: Thanh Hoa



Coordinate: 20° 21' 42" N, 105° 31' 42" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.1

Min Ma: 0.08

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "in Ba Tuoc district of Thanh Hoa Province" (Lopatin et al. 2021)
exact coordinate is given by Lopatin et al. (2021)
age estimate is given by Suraprasit et al. (2016, ZooKeys) and is apparently based on biochronology

Environment
Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "very hard, cemented 'breccias'" and specifically from "Cave II, breccia 5"
there are apparently no archaeological features

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sample size: 3250 specimens

Sampling comments: no details about collection methods are given

Metadata
Sample number: 4194

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-06 09:35:10

Modified: 2023-04-05 23:35:10

Abundance distribution
25 species
1 singleton
total count 3250
geometric series index: 29.6
Fisher's α: 3.686
geometric series k: 0.7491
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8302
Shannon's H: 2.0917
Good's u: 0.9997
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Pongo pygmaeus20152 kg frugivore-folivore
in fact the Bornean orangutan: see Lopatin et al. 2021
Hylobatidae indet.7
"Hylobates sp.": could be Nomascus
Cercopithecidae indet.358
includes Presbytis or Trachypithecus plus Macaca
Helarctos malayanus232 kg frugivore-insectivore
"Ursus malayanus"
Ursus thibetanus3363 kg browser-frugivore
Ailuropoda melanoleuca596 kg browser
Paradoxurus hermaphroditus112.4 kg frugivore-insectivore
Cuon alpinus formosus114 kg carnivore
"Cuon javanicus"
Panthera pardus933 kg carnivore
Panthera tigris6168 kg carnivore
Catopuma temminckii610 kg carnivore
"Felis temmincki"
Lutrogale perspicillata27.5 kg piscivore-carnivore
"Lutra perspicillata"
Arctonyx collaris33 invertivore
Dicerorhinus sumatrensis190
Tapirus indicus18
Bubalus arnee33
"Bubalus bubalis": not domesticated
Capricornis sumatraensis23118 kg
Cervus unicolor411100 kg browser-grazer
"Rusa unicolor"
Muntiacus muntjak48119 kg browser
Sus scrofa102754 kg herbivore
Elephantidae indet.14
Elephas maximus or Palaeoloxodon namadicus
Stegodon orientalis11
Hystrix kiangsenensis358
"Acanthion brachyurus": see Lopatin et al. 2021
Atherurus macrourus8
Leopoldamys sabanus2338 g frugivore-insectivore
"Rattus sabanus"