Bogue Chitto Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Bogue Chitto Creek
Reference: S. M. McCarroll and J. L. Dobie. 1994. Additional Pleistocene mammals from Bogue Chitto Creek, Dallas County, Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 65(1):16-27 [ER 3403]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Alabama
County: Dallas
Coordinate: 32.35° N, -87.31° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: from four sites along the creek, three of which are close together and are shown as immediately southwest of Bogue Chitto
assigned to the Rancholabrean based on faunal correlation
"it is assumed that the fossils had been reworked at least once"
assigned to the Rancholabrean based on faunal correlation
"it is assumed that the fossils had been reworked at least once"
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "These sediments are fluvial"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other large mammals, other small mammals
Excluded forms: snakes, turtles, snails
Sampling methods: screenwash, surface
Sample size: 54 specimens
Years: 1985
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "All fossil material was found on streambed gravel bars or within the stream banks... by screening bulk-sediment samples"
taxa not inventoried include "turtles and a snake, Pleistocene freshwater gastropods and macro-plan detritus, as well as reworked Late Cretaceous vertebrate bone and invertebrate steinkerns"
taxa not inventoried include "turtles and a snake, Pleistocene freshwater gastropods and macro-plan detritus, as well as reworked Late Cretaceous vertebrate bone and invertebrate steinkerns"
Metadata
Sample no: 3785
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2021-06-09 18:07:03
Modified: 2021-06-09 08:07:03
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
14 species
6 singletons
total count 54
geometric series index: 34.7
Fisher's α: 6.132
geometric series k: 0.812
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8316
Shannon's H: 2.1331
Good's u: 0.8909
Register
| †Holmesina septentrionalis (pampathere) | 1 | |
| osteoderm | ||
| †Dasypus bellus (beautiful armadillo) | 13 | |
| osteoderms | ||
| †Megalonyx jeffersonii (Jefferson's ground sloth) | 1 | |
| †Paramylodon harlani (ground sloth) | 3 | |
| "Glossotherium harlani" | ||
| Vulpes vulpes (red fox) | 1 | |
| also one specimen of an indeterminate carnivore | ||
| †Castoroides ohioensis | 1 | |
| Castor canadensis | 2 | 11.0 kg |
| Ondatra zibethicus | 2 | |
| Lepus sp. | 1 | |
| compared to this genus | ||
| Equus sp. | 6 | |
| †Tapirus veroensis (tapir) | 15 | |
| Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) | 5 | |
| Artiodactyla indet. | 1 | |
| "probably a camelid" | ||
| †Mammut americanum (American mastodon) | 2 | |