Golf Course
Basic information
Sample name: Golf Course

Sample aka: Melbourne

Reference: C. E. Ray. 1958. Additions to the Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Melbourne, Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119(7):419-449 [ER 3119]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Florida


Coordinate: 28° 7' N, 80° 38' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: "from Stratum 2 at the Golf Course locality, Melbourne" which is "2 miles west of Melbourne" (coordinate based on Melbourne)
Stratum 2 is considered to be definitely Late Pleistocene

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "Fine white to light-brown sand containing a few local irregular lenses of marine shells and local accumulations of bones"

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

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 1195 specimens

Years: 1925 - 1929

Sampling comments: Museum of Comparative Zoology material "known as the Singleton Collection... acquired in 1928"
"human remains were deposited in the upper layers of Stratum 2 or on the erosion surface above Stratum 2"

Metadata
Sample number: 3407

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-30 15:58:49

Modified: 2021-06-06 00:07:40

Abundance distribution
37 species
5 singletons
total count 1195
geometric series index: 49.3
Fisher's α: 7.237
geometric series k: 0.8551
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8942
Shannon's H: 2.7160
Good's u: 0.9958
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Didelphis virginiana632.2 kg insectivore-carnivore
"Didelphis marsupialis"
Blarina carolinensis29.3 g
"Blarina brevicauda"
Scalopus aquaticus2194.9 g
Eumops floridanus1
"Molossides floridanus"
Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii12
"Megalonyx cf. wheatleyi" (see Kurten and Anderson 1980)
Paramylodon cf. harlani1
Dasypus bellus9
"several hundred dermal scutes" are also present
Holmesina septentrionalis6
"Chlamytherium septentrionalis": "more than 100 dermal scutes" are also present
Sylvilagus palustris27
Geomys pinetis81138 g
Oryzomys palustris842.4 g
Peromyscus gossypinus229.2 g
Sigmodon hispidus9289.4 g
Neotoma floridana31252 g
Synaptomys australis4
Neofiber alleni53258 g
Aenocyon cf. dirus4
"Aenocyon cf. ayersi"
Canis cf. latrans412 kg carnivore-insectivore
Canis cf. lupus143 kg carnivore
Vulpes cf. vulpes25.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
"Vulpes cf. palmaria"
Ursidae indet.18
Procyon lotor195.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Mephitis mephitis11.5 kg carnivore-insectivore
Spilogale putorius ambarvalis2633 g carnivore-invertivore
"Spilogale ambarvalis"
Lontra canadensis187.1 kg piscivore
"Lutra canadensis"
Lynx rufus139.0 kg carnivore
"Felis (Lynx) rufus"
Puma concolor1049 kg carnivore
"Felis (Puma) inexpectata" material that cannot be distinguished from P. concolor
Monachus tropicalis1
Mammut americanum25
Mammuthus sp.13
Equus sp.280
Tapirus cf. veroensis72
Mylohyus sp.16
Platygonus sp.5
Palaeolama cf. mirifica11
"Tanupolama cf. mirifica"
Odocoileus virginianus18375 kg herbivore
Bison sp.84