Sunshine Locality (Unit C)
Basic information
Sample name: Sunshine Locality (Unit C)

Reference: G. Huckleberry, C. Beck, G. T. Jones, A. Holmes, M. Cannon, S. Livingston, and J. M. Broughton. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene environmental change at the Sunshine Locality, north-central Nevada, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research 55:303-312 [ER 3215]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Nevada


Coordinate: 39° 43' N, 115° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3215

Unit number: 3

Unit order: above to below

Max Ma: 0.01006

Min Ma: 0.00856

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "in southern Long Valley, about 60 km northwest of Ely" and shown as immediately west of the Butte Mountains (coordinate based on Butte Mountains)
there are six uncalibrated dates ranging from 10060 +/- 50 to 8560 +/- 100 14C yr B.P.

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "a dark brown, silty clay organic-rich zone" that "represents either a shallow pond deposit or wetland soil"
stone tools are inventoried

Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals,birds

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 24 specimens

Years: 1993

Sampling comments: "In 1993, a 5 x 6 m block was excavated 4 m deep"
there is no discussion of screenwashing

Metadata
Sample number: 3531

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-11 22:22:27

Modified: 2023-04-29 01:55:33

Abundance distribution
7 species
4 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 22.5
Fisher's α: 3.322
geometric series k: 0.6441
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6014
Shannon's H: 1.3498
Good's u: 0.8369
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Register
Aythya sp.2
Accipiter striatus19.7 g carnivore
Sylvilagus sp.1
Urocitellus townsendii14193 g
"Spermophilus townsendii"
Thomomys bottae4128 g
Peromyscus sp.1
Microtus sp.1