Welsh Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Welsh Cave
Reference: J. E. Guilday, H. W. Hamilton, and A. D. McCrady. 1971. The Welsh Cave peccaries (Platygonus) and associated fauna, Kentucky Pleistocene. Annals of Carnegie Museum 43(9):249-320 [ER 3110]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Kentucky
Coordinate: 37° 52' 25" N, 84° 44' 50" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Ma: 0.01295
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "about 3 1/2 miles southwest of Troy"
"A date of 12,950 +/- 550 years B.P. (I-2982) was derived from the collagen content of the bones" of Platygonus compressus (almost certainly uncalibrated given the date of the publication, and listed as such in the PEOPLE 3000 database)
"A date of 12,950 +/- 550 years B.P. (I-2982) was derived from the collagen content of the bones" of Platygonus compressus (almost certainly uncalibrated given the date of the publication, and listed as such in the PEOPLE 3000 database)
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: cave,pitfall trap
Habitat comments: "bone-bearing clays... The bulk of the collection was probably built up by animal remains tumbling down former talus slopes to repose against the walls of the cave"
Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1457 specimens
Years: 1965 - 1967
Sampling comments: "Approximately one-half ton of matrix was removed for washing and removal of microfauna" (i.e., 1000 lbs or 454 kg)
Metadata
Sample number: 3397
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-29 21:13:30
Modified: 2023-09-11 10:40:46
Abundance distribution
25 species
6 singletons
total count 1457
extrapolated richness: 41.1
Fisher's α: 4.287
geometric series k: 0.7447
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3327
Shannon's H: 0.8946
Good's u: 0.9959
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
• Find matching samples
Register
| Sorex palustris | 4 | 11.4 g |
| Sorex hoyi | 4 | 2.8 g |
| "Microsorex hoyi" | ||
| Blarina brevicauda | 3 | 15.1 g |
| Scalopus aquaticus | 2 | 94.9 g |
| compared to subspecies machrinus | ||
| Myotis sp. | 2 | |
| Perimyotis cf. subflavus | 1 | 5.6 g insectivore |
| "Pipistrellus cf. subflavus" | ||
| Sylvilagus sp. | 6 | |
| Lepus cf. americanus | 4 | 1.4 kg browser |
| Ictidomys tridecemlineatus | 118 | 160 g |
| "Spermophilus tridecemlineatus" | ||
| Tamiasciurus cf. hudsonicus | 1 | 187 g |
| Geomys cf. bursarius | 16 | |
| Peromyscus sp. | 3 | |
| Myodes cf. gapperi | 1 | 24.1 g |
| "Clethrionomys cf. gapperi" | ||
| Phenacomys cf. intermedius | 1 | 23.5 g |
| Microtus cf. pennsylvanicus | 21 | 35.7 g |
| Microtus xanthognathus | 6 | 68.5 g |
| Microtus sp. | 24 | |
| "Pitymys... or Pedomys" | ||
| Erethizon dorsatum | 23 | 9.9 kg herbivore |
| Aenocyon dirus | 12 | |
| "Canis dirus" | ||
| Ursus arctos horribilis | 6 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |
| Mustela nivalis | 2 | 77.5 g carnivore |
| Taxidea taxus | 1 | 7.0 kg carnivore |
| Mammuthus sp. | 12 | |
| Equus sp. | 1 | |
| Platygonus compressus | 1183 | |