Jack Wade
Basic information
Sample name: Jack Wade

Reference: L. Porter. 1986. Jack Wade Creek: an in situ Alaskan Late Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage. Arctic 39(4):297-299 [ER 3204]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Alaska


Coordinate: 64° 9' 0" N, 141° 27' 30" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Ma: 0.0297

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "from the base of a 6 m placer section at Jack Wade"
there is a date on "bison horn core collagen" at this level of 29,700 +/- 240 yr BP (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)

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Environment
Lithology: conglomerate

Habitat comments: "The fossils were buried in permafrost and were concentrated in a small 6 m2 pile. The 60 bones were recovered from schistose orange sandy gravels"

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 59 specimens

Metadata
Sample number: 3515

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-10 20:13:34

Modified: 2023-04-03 08:55:25

Abundance distribution
5 species
1 singleton
total count 59
extrapolated richness: 6.9
Fisher's α: 1.304
geometric series k: 0.4429
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6718
Shannon's H: 1.2805
Good's u: 0.9831
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