Lower Pubu Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Lower Pubu Cave

Reference: W. Wang, R. Potts, Y. Baoyin, W. Huang, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, and P. Ditchfield. 2007. Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominoid teeth, from the Bubing Basin caves, South China. Journal of Human Evolution 52(4):370-379 [ER 3845]
Geography
Country: China

State: Guangxi


Coordinate: 23° 35' 53" N, 106° 59' 10" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "in the Bubing Basin"
age assignment is based on faunal similarity to the Nanshan Cave fauna

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "Sandy-clay sediments"
archaeological features are apparently absent

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 665 specimens

Years: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003

Sampling comments: "excavated during three field seasons (December 1999 to January 2000, October to November 2002, and November 2003)"
sediment was "sieved (0.5 mm mesh)"

Metadata
Sample number: 4206

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-07 17:23:55

Modified: 2023-04-07 07:23:55

Abundance distribution
15 species
1 singleton
total count 665
geometric series index: 19.6
Fisher's α: 2.727
geometric series k: 0.6692
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7478
Shannon's H: 1.7205
Good's u: 0.9985
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Register
Macaca sp.23
Hystrix brachyura subcristata122
"Hystrix subcristata"
Rhizomys sp.5
Arctonyx collaris11 invertivore
Ursus thibetanus1263 kg browser-frugivore
Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi396 kg browser
Elephas maximus23711 kg grazer-browser
†Tapirus sinensis1
†Rhinoceros sinensis2
Equus hemionus2 grazer
Sus scrofa5954 kg herbivore
†Sus xiaozhu7
Muntiacus sp.123
Cervus sp.277
Bovinae indet.16