Jihong Brick Factory
Basic information
Sample name: Jihong Brick Factory

Reference: X.-P. Ma, G. Li, F. Gao, Y.-L. Sun, and L. Zheng. 2004. New early Pleistocene mammalian materials from Zhongdian, Yunnan Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 42(3):246-258 [ER 4069]
Geography
Country: China

State: Yunnan



Coordinate: 27.52° N, 99.83° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Scale: quarry

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Geography comments: from the original Jihong Brick Factory kiln site about 6 km south of Zhongdian County, Yunnan Province
Zhongian apparently means Xiaozhongdian
coordinate is estimated from a map
assigned to the early Pleistocene with no further precision

Environment
Lithology: claystone

Habitat comments: the fossil-bearing stratum is at the bottom of the local section
the stratum is apparently a claystone, but I'm unable to make out more details

Methods
Life forms: primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 26 specimens

Years: 1998

Sampling comments: workers in the brick factory found the fossils in 1998 while taking soil, and the Yunnang Provincial Institute of Archaeology then organised rescue excavations
the description focuses on dental material
hyaena coprolites, carnivores, rhinoceros cheek tooth fragments, and limb bones of Cervus (Sika) sp. and Bison sp. are also present

Metadata
Sample number: 4491

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2024-11-17 09:33:51

Modified: 2024-11-17 09:33:51

Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 26
geometric series index: 15.7
Fisher's α: 4.877
geometric series k: 0.7993
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8615
Shannon's H: 2.1042
Good's u: 0.9668
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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