Las Guancas (Capa 10)
Basic information
Sample name: Las Guancas (Capa 10)

Sample aka: RI-16

Reference: R. Labarca, F. Fuentes, and F. Mena. 2008. Los conjuntos faunísticos pleistocénicos de cueva Las Guanacas (Región de Aisen, Patagonia chilena): alcances taxonómicos y tafonómicos. Magallania 36(2):123-142 [ER 3386]
Geography
Country: Chile


Coordinate: 46° 15' S, 71° 59' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Section: 3386

Unit number: 2

Unit order: above to below

Ma: 0.013275

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "noreste del cerro Nudo, sobre el salto del Ibâñez... una cueva de 18 mts de profundidad y 6 mts de ancho promedio"
there is an uncalibrated AMS date of 13275 +/0- 30 ybp on a horse molar from layer 10, so this is a minimum for 11 and 12 and a maximum for 9

Environment
Lithology: ash

Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave

Habitat comments: the layers are numbered from the top down
layers 8, 10, and 12 consist of collapse layers that are apparently composed of volanic ash; layer 9 is a 10 cm-thick sand and layer 11 is a 20-cm thick silt

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 28 specimens

Years: 1982, 1983, 1997

Sampling comments: there are 611 Mylodon darwini osteoderms from all levels combined; these are excluded from the register

Metadata
Sample number: 3761

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-05 16:31:31

Modified: 2023-04-29 03:40:39

Abundance distribution
6 species
1 singleton
total count 28
geometric series index: 8.9
Fisher's α: 2.343
geometric series k: 0.6776
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7989
Shannon's H: 1.6889
Good's u: 0.9643
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Lama guanicoe7101 kg
plus two indeterminate camelid specimens
Hippocamelus bisulcus5
Pudu puda4
Hippidion saldiasi5
Macrauchenia patachonica1
Lycalopex culpaeus68.0 kg invertivore-carnivore
"Dusicyon culpaeus"