The Ecological Register: Lower Pubu Cave

Lower Pubu Cave

edit this sample – create a copied sample – enter a new sample – edit the register

Basic information

Sample name: Lower Pubu Cave

Reference: W. Wang, R. Potts, Y. Baoyin, W. Huang, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, and P. Ditchfield. 2007. Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominoid teeth, from the Bubing Basin caves, South China. Journal of Human Evolution 52(4):370-379 [ER 3845]

Geography

Country: China

State: Guangxi

Coordinate: 23° 35' 53" N, 106° 59' 10" E

Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "in the Bubing Basin"
age assignment is based on faunal similarity to the Nanshan Cave fauna

•

Environment

Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "Sandy-clay sediments"
archaeological features are apparently absent

Methods

Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 665 specimens

Years: 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003

Sampling comments: "excavated during three field seasons (December 1999 to January 2000, October to November 2002, and November 2003)"
sediment was "sieved (0.5 mm mesh)"

Metadata

Sample number: 4206

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-07 17:23:55

Modified: 2023-04-07 07:23:55

Abundance distribution

15 species

1 singleton

total count 665

extrapolated richness: 19.6

Fisher's α: 2.727

geometric series k: 0.6692

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7478

Shannon's H: 1.7205

Good's u: 0.9985

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

• Find matching samples

Macaca sp.	23
Hystrix brachyura subcristata	122
"Hystrix subcristata"
Rhizomys sp.	5
Arctonyx collaris	11	invertivore
Ursus thibetanus	12	63 kg browser-frugivore
Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi	3	96 kg browser
Elephas maximus	2	3711 kg grazer-browser
Tapirus sinensis	1
Rhinoceros sinensis	2
Equus hemionus	2	grazer
Sus scrofa	59	54 kg herbivore
Sus xiaozhu	7
Muntiacus sp.	123
Cervus sp.	277
Bovinae indet.	16

Current reference: Huckleberry et al. 2001 (ER 3215)