Bogue Chitto Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Bogue Chitto Creek

Reference: S. M. McCarroll and J. L. Dobie. 1994. Additional Pleistocene mammals from Bogue Chitto Creek, Dallas County, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 65(1):16-27 [ER 3403]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Alabama


County: Dallas


Coordinate: 32.35° N, -87.31° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: from four sites along the creek, three of which are close together and are shown as immediately southwest of Bogue Chitto
assigned to the Rancholabrean based on faunal correlation
"it is assumed that the fossils had been reworked at least once"

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "These sediments are fluvial"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals

Sampling methods: screenwash,surface

Sample size: 54 specimens

Years: 1985

Sampling comments: "All fossil material was found on streambed gravel bars or within the stream banks... by screening bulk-sediment samples"
taxa not inventoried include "turtles and a snake, Pleistocene freshwater gastropods and macro-plan detritus, as well as reworked Late Cretaceous vertebrate bone and invertebrate steinkerns"

Metadata
Sample number: 3785

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-09 18:07:03

Modified: 2021-06-09 08:07:03

Abundance distribution
14 species
6 singletons
total count 54
geometric series index: 34.7
Fisher's α: 6.132
geometric series k: 0.8120
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8316
Shannon's H: 2.1331
Good's u: 0.8909
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Holmesina septentrionalis1
osteoderm
Dasypus bellus13
osteoderms
Megalonyx jeffersonii1
Paramylodon harlani3
"Glossotherium harlani"
Vulpes vulpes15.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
also one specimen of an indeterminate carnivore
Castoroides ohioensis1
Castor canadensis211 kg
Ondatra zibethicus21.1 kg
Lepus sp.1
compared to this genus
Equus sp.6
Tapirus veroensis15
Odocoileus virginianus575 kg herbivore
Artiodactyla indet.1
"probably a camelid"
Mammut americanum2