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)
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
geometric series index: 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
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| Sorex sp. | 16 | |
| Ochotona pusilla | 13 | |
| Spermophilus sp. | 2 | |
| large | ||
| Nothocricetulus migratorius | 24 | |
| "Cricetulus migratorius" | ||
| Myodes glareolus | 3 | |
| Myodes rutilus | 2 | 19.5 g |
| Lagurus lagurus | 103 | |
| Eolagurus luteus | 3 | |
| Dicrostonyx sp. | 134 | |
| Lemmus sibiricus | 2 | 43.7 g |
| Arvicola amphibius | 1 | |
| "Arvicola terrestris" | ||
| Stenocranius gregalis | 46 | |
| "Microtus gregalis" | ||
| Alexandromys oeconomus | 22 | 36.5 g |
| "Microtus oeconomus" | ||
| Microtus agrestis | 1 | |
| Lepus timidus | 18 | |
| Vulpes lagopus | 2 | 3.3 kg |
| "Alopex lagopus" | ||
| Equus sp. | 5 | |
| †Coelodonta antiquitatis | 3 | |
| Rangifer tarandus | 26 | 69 kg browser |
| Saiga tatarica | 1 | 28 kg |