Prairie Creek (Zone B)
Basic information
Sample name: Prairie Creek (Zone B)

Reference: R. L. Richards. 1992. Small mammals of the Prairie Creek Site, Daviess County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 101(3-4):245-278 [ER 3206]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Indiana


County: Daviess


Coordinate: 38° 43' 4" N, 87° 9' 55" W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3206

Unit number: 1

Unit order: above to below

Geography comments: "approximately 3 miles north of the city of Washington" according to Tomak (1974) (coordinate based on Prairie Creek Site)
asserted to be "4,140 - 2,880 B.P." but there are no direct dates

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: Zone includes "remains of vertebrates living in and about Prairie Creek and marshlands of the former lake" that existed in the Pleistocene, "accumulated in the alluvial sediments of Prairie Creek"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other small mammals,snakes,turtles,frogs,salamanders

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 3127 specimens

Years: 1974, 1975

Sampling comments: "Materials were recovered by trowling, with all matrix dry screened through 1/4" hardware mesh"
fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and large mammals were to be described elsewhere
small mammals are documented by Richards (1992), and Holman and Richards (1993) document the amphibians and reptiles

Metadata
Sample number: 3525

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-11 15:03:59

Modified: 2023-04-29 01:46:58

Abundance distribution
36 species
10 singletons
total count 3127
geometric series index: 62.6
Fisher's α: 5.707
geometric series k: 0.8065
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5623
Shannon's H: 1.2291
Good's u: 0.9968
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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