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
County: Brevard
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
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"
"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.
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| Didelphis virginiana | 63 | 1.1 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| "Didelphis marsupialis" | ||
| Blarina carolinensis | 2 | 9.3 g |
| "Blarina brevicauda" | ||
| Scalopus aquaticus | 21 | 94.9 g |
| Eumops floridanus | 1 | |
| "Molossides floridanus" | ||
| †Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii | 12 | |
| "Megalonyx cf. wheatleyi" (see Kurten and Anderson 1980) | ||
| †Paramylodon cf. harlani | 1 | |
| †Dasypus bellus | 9 | |
| "several hundred dermal scutes" are also present | ||
| †Holmesina septentrionalis | 6 | |
| "Chlamytherium septentrionalis": "more than 100 dermal scutes" are also present | ||
| Sylvilagus palustris | 27 | |
| Geomys pinetis | 81 | 138 g |
| Oryzomys palustris | 8 | 42.4 g |
| Peromyscus gossypinus | 2 | 29.2 g |
| Sigmodon hispidus | 92 | 89.4 g |
| Neotoma floridana | 31 | 252 g |
| †Synaptomys australis | 4 | |
| Neofiber alleni | 53 | 258 g |
| †Aenocyon cf. dirus | 4 | |
| "Aenocyon cf. ayersi" | ||
| Canis cf. latrans | 4 | 12 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Canis cf. lupus | 1 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Vulpes cf. vulpes | 2 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| "Vulpes cf. palmaria" | ||
| Ursidae indet. | 18 | |
| Procyon lotor | 19 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
| Mephitis mephitis | 1 | 1.5 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Spilogale putorius ambarvalis | 2 | 633 g carnivore-invertivore |
| "Spilogale ambarvalis" | ||
| Lontra canadensis | 18 | 7.1 kg piscivore |
| "Lutra canadensis" | ||
| Lynx rufus | 13 | 9.0 kg carnivore |
| "Felis (Lynx) rufus" | ||
| Puma concolor | 10 | 49 kg carnivore |
| "Felis (Puma) inexpectata" material that cannot be distinguished from P. concolor | ||
| Monachus tropicalis | 1 | |
| †Mammut americanum | 25 | |
| Mammuthus sp. | 13 | |
| Equus sp. | 280 | |
| †Tapirus cf. veroensis | 72 | |
| Mylohyus sp. | 16 | |
| Platygonus sp. | 5 | |
| †Palaeolama cf. mirifica | 11 | |
| "Tanupolama cf. mirifica" | ||
| Odocoileus virginianus | 183 | 75 kg herbivore |
| Bison sp. | 84 | |