Boh Dambang
Basic information
Sample name: Boh Dambang
Reference: A.-M. Bacon, P. Duringer, K. Westaway, R. Joannes-Boyau, J.-X. Zhao, N. Bourgon, E. Dufour, S. Pheng, S. Tep, J.-L. Ponche, L. Barnes, A. Blin, E. Patole-Edoumba, and F. Demeter. 2018. Testing the savannah corridor hypothesis during MIS2: The Boh Dambang hyena site in southern Cambodia. Quaternary International 464:417-439 [ER 3075]
Geography
Country: Cambodia
Coordinate: 10° 40' 47" N, 104° 16' 35" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.025
Min Ma: 0.018
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "less than 15 km from the Kampot city"
based on a series of luminescene, ESR, and U/Th dates, most of the fauna is "25-18 ka (MIS2)"
based on a series of luminescene, ESR, and U/Th dates, most of the fauna is "25-18 ka (MIS2)"
Environment
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave
Habitat comments: "karstic" and a "cave site"
lithology is a "light brown sandy and silty clay, enriched in places by iron-rich pisolites, sometimes with small gravel and caliches. No obvious beds or vertical changes in the deposits have been observed... The taphonomic analysis reveals that remains were mainly accumulated by hyenas"
lithology is a "light brown sandy and silty clay, enriched in places by iron-rich pisolites, sometimes with small gravel and caliches. No obvious beds or vertical changes in the deposits have been observed... The taphonomic analysis reveals that remains were mainly accumulated by hyenas"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 498 specimens
Sampling comments: "we identified taxa by isolated teeth only, since most of the severely damaged skeletal remains could not be used for taxonomic purposes"
Metadata
Sample number: 3348
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-25 17:37:07
Modified: 2019-08-25 10:53:03
Abundance distribution
16 species
0 singletons
total count 498
geometric series index: 18.0
Fisher's α: 3.158
geometric series k: 0.7753
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8908
Shannon's H: 2.3762
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Cervus unicolor | 57 | 100 kg grazer-browser |
| "Rusa unicolor" | ||
| Cervus eldii | 59 | |
| "Rucervus eldii" | ||
| Muntiacus vaginalis | 33 | |
| compared to "Muntiacus muntjak": reassignment is based on geography | ||
| Bos cf. gaurus | 47 | 481 kg |
| compared to "Bos frontalis": English name given as "gaur" | ||
| Bubalus arnee | 56 | |
| "Bubalus bubalis": not domesticated | ||
| Capricornis cf. sumatraensis | 21 | |
| Sus cf. scrofa | 59 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Rhinocerotidae indet. | 5 | |
| Canis aureus | 7 | 9.9 kg carnivore-frugivore |
| Prionailurus bengalensis | 2 | 3.4 kg carnivore |
| Panthera cf. pardus | 5 | 33 kg carnivore |
| Ursus thibetanus | 5 | 63 kg browser-frugivore |
| †Crocuta ultima | 91 | |
| "Crocuta crocuta ultima" | ||
| Macaca sp. | 6 | |
| Pongo pygmaeus | 7 | 52 kg frugivore-folivore |
| Hystrix cf. brachyura | 38 | |