Mohui Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Mohui 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° 34' 54" N, 107° 0' 8" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "in the Bubing Basin"
"late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene" based on similarity to the Longgupo and Liuchen fauans, and specifically on the presence of Hesperotherium and Ailuropoda microta, but Sus peii is said to be early Pleistocene and the paper predates the redefinition of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary
"late Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene" based on similarity to the Longgupo and Liuchen fauans, and specifically on the presence of Hesperotherium and Ailuropoda microta, but Sus peii is said to be early Pleistocene and the paper predates the redefinition of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: there are " three major units: an upper cave breccia with few fossils, a middle poorly-cemented fossiliferious unit consisting mainly of sandy clay, and a lower fine-clay deposit containing sparse fossilized teeth of large mammals and many teeth and bones of micromammals"
there is a "stone artifact" at "the top of the deposit", so it postdates most or all of the fauna
there is a "stone artifact" at "the top of the deposit", so it postdates most or all of the fauna
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 655 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)"
sediment was "sieved (0.5 mm mesh)"
Metadata
Sample number: 4208
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-04-07 17:53:57
Modified: 2023-04-07 07:53:57
Abundance distribution
30 species
4 singletons
total count 655
geometric series index: 40.7
Fisher's α: 6.487
geometric series k: 0.8609
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9283
Shannon's H: 2.8477
Good's u: 0.9939
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Register
| Macaca sp. | 20 | |
| Hominoidea indet. | 17 | |
| †Gigantopithecus blacki | 16 | |
| Typhlomys cinereus | 25 | |
| †Hystrix kiangsenensis | 77 | |
| †Hystrix refossa | 10 | |
| "Hystrix magna" | ||
| Hapalomys sp. | 30 | |
| Leopoldamys sp. | 19 | |
| Niviventer sp. | 48 | |
| †Canis (Xenocyon) dubius | 2 | |
| "Cuon dubius" | ||
| Arctonyx collaris | 3 | invertivore |
| Ursus thibetanus | 5 | 63 kg browser-frugivore |
| †Ailuropoda microta | 4 | |
| †Pachycrocuta brevirostris licenti | 1 | |
| "Pachycrocuta licenti" | ||
| Panthera sp. | 1 | |
| †Felis teilhardi | 2 | |
| †Stegodon preorientalis | 15 | |
| Sinomastodon sp. | 1 | |
| †Tapirus sanyuanensis | 4 | |
| Hesperotherium sp. | 2 | |
| †Rhinoceros sinensis | 18 | |
| †Sus xiaozhu | 31 | |
| †Sus peii | 53 | |
| †Dorcabune liuchengense | 3 | |
| Muntiacus sp. | 72 | |
| †Cervus cf. fengqii | 62 | |
| †Cervus yunnanensis | 61 | |
| Cervus sp. | 49 | |
| Bovinae indet. | 1 | |
| †Megalovis guangxiensis | 3 | |