Svetly (layer 5)
Basic information
Sample name: Svetly (layer 5)

Reference: I. N. Korkina, N. G. Smirnov, E. P. Izvarin, and A. I. Ulitko. 2016. Deposits of the rock shelter Svetly (the Middle Urals): Comparison of paleosol and paleotheriological data and paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on them. Quaternary International 420:47-55 [ER 3072]
Geography
Country: Russia


Coordinate: 56° 32' N, 59° 16' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Ma: 0.0164

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: a rock shelter "on the right bank of the river Serga in the National Park Olenyi Ruch'i, the Middle Urals... in the base of a 7 m high limestone rock"
there is a single radiocarbon date on this 80 cm layer of "16,400 ± 165 BP" (presumed to be uncalibrated)

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Taphonomic context: cave,paleosol

Habitat comments: "Light-gray or whitish, loose unstructured loamy soil. Stone content increases from 10% in the upper part of the layer up to 80% in the lower part"

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

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 427 specimens

Years: 2005 - 2007

Sampling comments: "Deposits have been taken in separate 10 cm levels and washed in sieves with a mesh size of 0.8 mm to recover small vertebrate remains"

Metadata
Sample number: 3345

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-25 16:54:30

Modified: 2023-04-03 06:57:47

Abundance distribution
20 species
3 singletons
total count 427
extrapolated richness: 29.8
Fisher's α: 4.351
geometric series k: 0.7728
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8173
Shannon's H: 2.0942
Good's u: 0.9930
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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