Nanshan
Basic information
Sample name: Nanshan

Reference: W. Wang and J.-Y. Mo. 2004. Human fossil teeth newly discovered in Nanshan cave of Fusui, Guangxi. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 23(2):130-137 [ER 3817]
Geography
Country: China

State: Guangxi

County: Fusui

Coordinate: 22° 23' 24" N, 108° 34' 41" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Ma: 0.035

Age basis: U/Th

Geography comments: "in the south of the Nafa Mining Area of Dongluo Mineral Bureau, Fusui County... 200 m south of Nanshan Primary School"
Late Pleistocene based on the mammal fauna
there is a U-series date of "around 30 to 40 ka" on flow-stone, not from the clay yielding the fossils, and the relative stratigraphic position is unclear

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Environment
Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: "sandy clay and new carbonate... The sandy clay contains mammalian teeth and bone fragments"
accumulation agent is not discussed
no artefacts appear to be present

Methods
Life forms: primates, rodents, ungulates

Excluded forms: snails

Sampling methods: surface

Sample size: 20 specimens

Years: 2000

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "gastropod fossils" are also present

Metadata
Sample no: 4162

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-03-13 14:43:00

Modified: 2023-03-13 03:45:17

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
10 species
5 singletons
total count 20
geometric series index: 33.3
Fisher's α: 7.959
geometric series k: 0.8195
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8368
Shannon's H: 2.0855
Good's u: 0.7649
Register
Homo sapiens (human)264.0 kg
teeth
Hystrix sp. 1
Macaca sp. 2
Elephas maximus (Asian elephant)13711.0 kg
†Rhinoceros sinensis (rhinoceros)1
Equus hemionus (onager)6
Sus scrofa (pig)1
Cervus sp. 2
Ovis sp. 1
Bovidae indet.3
"cattle"