The Ecological Register: Polecat Creek (black earth)

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Polecat Creek (black earth)

Basic information

Sample name: Polecat Creek (black earth)

Reference: E. C. Galbreath. 1938. Post-glacial fossil vertebrates from east-central Illinois. Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 6(20):303-313 [ER 3210]

Geography

Country: United States

State: Illinois

Coordinate: 39.51° N, -88.01° W

Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3210

Unit number: 1

Unit order: above to below

Geography comments: "in the Polecat Creek gravel pits, one mile south of Ashmore in the north half of sec. 6, T. 12 N., R. 11 E."
presumably Holocene based on stratigaphic position and lack of Pleistocene fossils

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Environment

Lithology: conglomerate

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "a black earth averaging two feet in depth" at the top of the section

Methods

Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 11 specimens

Sampling comments: the "operator of the gravel pits... cooperated in saving specimens for more than ten years"
a specimen of Canis latrans "was obtained from a locality about 150 yards west of the gravel pits, probably from the black earth horizon"

Metadata

Sample number: 3522

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-11 12:28:49

Modified: 2023-04-29 01:50:39

Abundance distribution

4 species

2 singletons

total count 11

extrapolated richness: 10.3

Fisher's α: 2.261

geometric series k: 0.5848

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6091

Shannon's H: 1.1622

Good's u: 0.8182

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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Register

Canis lupus	1	43 kg carnivore
Lynx sp.	1
Odocoileus virginianus	5	75 kg herbivore
Bison bison	4	430 kg