Sunshine Locality (Unit C)
Basic information
Sample name: Sunshine Locality (Unit C)
Reference: G. Huckleberry, C. Beck, G. T. Jones, A. Holmes, M. Cannon, S. Livingston, and J. M. Broughton. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene environmental change at the Sunshine Locality, north-central Nevada, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research 55:303-312 [ER 3215]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
Coordinate: 39° 43' N, 115° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Section: 3215
Unit number: 3
Unit order: above to below
Max Ma: 0.01006
Min Ma: 0.00856
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in southern Long Valley, about 60 km northwest of Ely" and shown as immediately west of the Butte Mountains (coordinate based on Butte Mountains)
there are six uncalibrated dates ranging from 10060 +/- 50 to 8560 +/- 100 14C yr B.P.
there are six uncalibrated dates ranging from 10060 +/- 50 to 8560 +/- 100 14C yr B.P.
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: lake deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "a dark brown, silty clay organic-rich zone" that "represents either a shallow pond deposit or wetland soil"
stone tools are inventoried
stone tools are inventoried
Methods
Life forms: rodents,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 24 specimens
Years: 1993
Sampling comments: "In 1993, a 5 x 6 m block was excavated 4 m deep"
there is no discussion of screenwashing
there is no discussion of screenwashing
Metadata
Sample number: 3531
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-11 22:22:27
Modified: 2023-04-29 01:55:33
Abundance distribution
7 species
4 singletons
total count 24
geometric series index: 22.5
Fisher's α: 3.322
geometric series k: 0.6441
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6014
Shannon's H: 1.3498
Good's u: 0.8369
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Register
| Aythya sp. | 2 | |
| Accipiter striatus | 1 | 9.7 g carnivore |
| Sylvilagus sp. | 1 | |
| Urocitellus townsendii | 14 | 193 g |
| "Spermophilus townsendii" | ||
| Thomomys bottae | 4 | 128 g |
| Peromyscus sp. | 1 | |
| Microtus sp. | 1 | |