The Ecological Register: Katanda 16

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Katanda 16

Basic information

Sample name: Katanda 16

Sample aka: Kt16

Reference: A. S. Brooks, D. M. Helgren, J. S. Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, J. M. Keating, R. G. Klein, W. J. Rink, H. Schwarcz, J. N. L. Smith, K. Stewart, N. E. Todd, J. Verniers, and J. E. Yellen. 1995. Dating and context of three Middle Stone Age sites with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire. Science 268:548-553 [ER 3846]

Geography

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordinate: -0.10° S, 29.60° E

Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.174

Min Ma: 0.082

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "along the east bank of the Semliki River"
coordinate estimated from map in Fig. 1
fossils are from "at or near the base of the Katanda beds"
the same level at the laterally equivalent Kt9 was dated at 82 +/- 8 ka (TL on quartz), 155 +/- 38 ka (ESR on teeth), and 140 +/- 4 and 174 +/- 1 ka (U-series on teeth)

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Environment

Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Archaeology: bone tools,stone tools

Habitat comments: "well-sorted sandy alluvial facies with crossbedding" that "primarily represent lateral fills along a floodplain margin and the valleys of ephemeral tributary streams"
there are "grindstones and a barbed bone point"

Methods

Life forms: carnivores,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 25 specimens

Years: 1986 - 1990

Sampling comments: from "a major excavation" apparently at the same time as the Kt2 excavations (1986 to 1990)
MNI counts of fishes are also given

Metadata

Sample number: 4211

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-07 20:53:08

Modified: 2023-04-07 10:53:08

Abundance distribution

4 species

3 singletons

total count 25

extrapolated richness: 16.8

Fisher's α: 1.344

geometric series k: 0.3569

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1883

Shannon's H: 0.4988

Good's u: 0.8800

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

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Register

Aonyx sp.	1
Viverridae indet.	1
Hippopotamus amphibius	22	1107 kg grazer
Alcelaphus cf. buselaphus	1	143 kg grazer-browser
plus 2 indeterminate bovids