Dabeigou
Basic information
Sample name: Dabeigou

Sample aka: Qianxian

Reference: Z. Qin. 1984. Several paleoliths from Qianxian, Shaanxi. Acta Anthropologica Sinica 3(3):212-214 [ER 3820]
Geography
Country: China

State: Shaanxi

County: Qian

Coordinate: 34.45° N, 108.17° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: from the vicinity of a dam at the Dabeigou Reservoir (basis of coordinate)
Qianxian is a county (xian means county)
Late Pleistocene age assignment is based on the fauna

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Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: from variegated clay, sand and small gravel overlain by a loess and then a paleosol
eight stone artefacts are associated with the fossils
paleoenvironment and accumulation mode are unclear

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sample size: 48 specimens

Years: 1963

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: apparently collected by the author
not clear whether this is a surface or excavated collection

Metadata
Sample no: 4165

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-03-15 12:22:44

Modified: 2023-03-15 01:22:44

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
9 species
3 singletons
total count 48
geometric series index: 18.8
Fisher's α: 3.27
geometric series k: 0.6687
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6746
Shannon's H: 1.5541
Good's u: 0.9392
Register
Scaptochirus sp. 5
Eospalax fontanierii 8
"Myospalax fontanieri"
Microtus sp. 3
Cervus nippon (sika deer)2103.0 kg
"Pseudaxis sp." and "spotted deer", apparently meaning Cervus nippon pseudaxis
Megaloceros sp. 1
Capreolus sp. 1
Gazella sp. 1
†Coelodonta antiquitatis (woolly rhinoceros)2
Equus ferus przewalskii (wild horse)25
"Equus przewalskyi"