Prairie Creek (Zone B)
Basic information
Sample name: Prairie Creek (Zone B)

Reference: R. L. Richards. 1992. Small mammals of the Prairie Creek Site, Daviess County, Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 101(3-4):245-278 [ER 3206]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Indiana

County: Daviess

Coordinate: 39° 43' 4" N, 87° 10' 55" W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3206

Unit number: 1

Unit order: above to below

Geography comments: "approximately 3 miles north of the city of Washington" according to Tomak (1974) (coordinate based on Prairie Creek Site)
asserted to be "4, 140 - 2, 880 B.P." but there are no direct dates

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: Zone includes "remains of vertebrates living in and about Prairie Creek and marshlands of the former lake" that existed in the Pleistocene, "accumulated in the alluvial sediments of Prairie Creek"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, other small mammals, snakes, turtles, frogs, salamanders

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 3127 specimens

Years: 1974, 1975

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "Materials were recovered by trowling, with all matrix dry screened through 1/4" hardware mesh"
fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and large mammals were to be described elsewhere
small mammals are documented by Richards (1992), and Holman and Richards (1993) document the amphibians and reptiles

Metadata
Sample no: 3525

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-11 15:03:59

Modified: 2023-04-29 01:46:58

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
36 species
10 singletons
total count 3127
geometric series index: 62.6
Fisher's α: 5.707
geometric series k: 0.8065
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5623
Shannon's H: 1.2291
Good's u: 0.9968
Register
Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum)41.0 kg
Blarina brevicauda (northern short-tailed shrew)215.1 g
Condylura cristata (star-nosed mole)152.2 g
Scalopus aquaticus 1394.9 g
Urocyon cinereoargenteus (gray fox)14.1 kg
Procyon lotor (raccoon)155.5 kg
Pekania pennanti (fisher)6
"Martes pennanti"
Neogale vison (American mink)13
"Mustela vison"
Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk)1
Glaucomys cf. volans (southern flying squirrel)167.4 g
Marmota monax 24.5 kg
Sciurus carolinensis (eastern gray squirrel)14519.0 g
Sciurus niger (fox squirrel)2750.0 g
Peromyscus sp. 3
Microtus cf. pennsylvanicus 235.7 g
Microtus cf. pinetorum 1
Ondatra zibethicus (common muskrat)903
Sylvilagus sp. 1
Siren intermedia 3
Anaxyrus americanus 1
"Bufo americanus"
Anaxyrus fowleri 1
"Bufo woodhousii fowleri"
Lithobates catesbeianus 6
"Rana catesbeiana"
Rana "pipiens-complex"6
Sternotherus odoratus 1857
Chelydra serpentina 32
Chrysemys picta 73
Emydoidea blandingii 7
Trachemys scripta 71
Terrapene carolina 37
Apalone sp. 33
Coluber constrictor 4
Elaphe obsoleta 1
Lampropeltis getula 3
Nerodia rhombifer 4
Thamnophis sp. 1
Crotalus horridus 2