Jones
Basic information
Sample name: Jones
Sample aka: Meade County Locality No. 13
Reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1940. A new Pleistocene fauna from Meade County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 43:417-425 [ER 3203]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Kansas
County: Meade
Coordinate: 37.19° N, -100.28° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "sec. 8, T 33 S, R 27 W" (Downs 1954, Condor 56)
Hibbard makes "no attempt to correlate this fauna with any glacial or interglacial age" but it was thought to be Wisconsinan by Downs (1954) and Schultz (1969, GSA Special Paper 105)
Hibbard makes "no attempt to correlate this fauna with any glacial or interglacial age" but it was thought to be Wisconsinan by Downs (1954) and Schultz (1969, GSA Special Paper 105)
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: a one foot thick "Sand, thin bedded, with high lime content"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other small mammals,birds
Sample size: 115 specimens
Years: 1939
Sampling comments: presumably screenwashed, but collecting methods are not discussed
clams and snails are identified and listed but not inventoried, whereas fishes, salamanders, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and birds are mentioned and not identified
birds are inventoried by Downs (1954)
clams and snails are identified and listed but not inventoried, whereas fishes, salamanders, frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, and birds are mentioned and not identified
birds are inventoried by Downs (1954)
Metadata
Sample number: 3514
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-10 19:47:04
Modified: 2021-02-10 01:36:45
Abundance distribution
24 species
8 singletons
total count 115
geometric series index: 50.6
Fisher's α: 9.233
geometric series k: 0.8528
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8518
Shannon's H: 2.5138
Good's u: 0.9313
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Register
| Sorex cinereus | 9 | 4.1 g |
| Mephitis mephitis | 1 | 1.5 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| "Mephitis mesomelas" | ||
| Urocitellus richardsonii | 5 | 251 g |
| "Citellus richardsonii" | ||
| Ictidomys tridecemlineatus | 4 | 160 g |
| "Citellus tridecemlineatus" | ||
| Cynomys ludovicianus | 1 | |
| Geomys sp. | 5 | |
| a maxillary and "a number of isolated molars and premolars" (= at least four) | ||
| Peromyscus sp. | 1 | |
| Microtus pennsylvanicus | 39 | 35.7 g |
| 35 jaws and maxillaries plus "a number of isolated incisors, molars" (= at least four) | ||
| Podiceps nigricollis | 1 | 21.8 g |
| "Colymbus caspicus" | ||
| Anas acuta | 2 | 1.0 kg |
| Anas sp. | 6 | |
| "teals" | ||
| Anas clypeata | 1 | 636 g carnivore |
| Aythya sp. | 5 | |
| Aythyini indet. | 2 | |
| compared to Bucephala albeola | ||
| Bartramia longicauda | 6 | 154 g |
| Erolia sp. | 2 | |
| Calidridiinae indet. | 2 | |
| Scolopacidae indet. | 5 | |
| Zenaida macroura | 1 | 123 g granivore-frugivore |
| "Zenaidura macroura" | ||
| Agelaius sp. | 1 | |
| tentatively referred | ||
| Molothrus sp. | 2 | |
| Calamospiza melanocorys | 2 | 37.6 g |
| Calcarius sp. | 1 | |
| Emberizinae indet. | 11 | |