Bat Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Bat Cave
Reference: O. Hawksley, J. F. Reynolds, and R. L. Foley. 1973. Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Bat Cave, Pulaski County, Missouri. Bulletin of the National Speleological Society 35(3):61-87 [ER 3130]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Missouri
Coordinate: 37.87° N, -92.25° W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "eight km northwest of Waynesville... in the SE1/4, NW1/4, NE1/4 of Sec. 4, T. 36 N., R. 12 W."
there are no radiocarbon dates and the fauna is assigned to "as early as a late-Wisconsinan glacial stade at 16,500 to 13,500 years BP" on qualitative grounds
there are no radiocarbon dates and the fauna is assigned to "as early as a late-Wisconsinan glacial stade at 16,500 to 13,500 years BP" on qualitative grounds
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: cave,fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: "Generally, the bones were found within the upper 30cm of a matrix consisting of phrenatic clay and residual materials from the dolomite... bones were either carried into the passage by water or were moved within the passage by water after original deposition. However, there is little evidence of wear by tumbling, so the bones could not have been moved far. Some material, such as... a single individual of the extinct bear, Arctodus simus... appear to have been found at the original site of a 'bear bed'"
Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,snakes,frogs,salamanders
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 6974 specimens
Years: 1958, 1960 - 1968
Sampling comments: "The majority of the bones were recovered by careful excavation" and "some of the matrix" was "screened for small teeth and bones"
"A single tibia" of Rattus sp. "apparently was taken from the surface" and is not included in the list
"A single tibia" of Rattus sp. "apparently was taken from the surface" and is not included in the list
Metadata
Sample number: 3417
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-31 16:39:44
Modified: 2019-09-04 11:39:10
Abundance distribution
38 species
16 singletons
total count 6974
extrapolated richness: 77.9
Fisher's α: 5.289
geometric series k: 0.7893
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1724
Shannon's H: 0.5188
Good's u: 0.9977
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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