Gopnath
Basic information
Sample name: Gopnath
Reference: A. G. Costa. 2017. A new Late Pleistocene fauna from arid coastal India: Implications for inundated coastal refugia and human dispersals. Quaternary International 436:253-269 [ER 3831]
Geography
Country: India
State: Gujarat
Coordinate: 21° 12' 35" N, 72° 6' 28" E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "Gopnath is a small fishing village of Talaja Taluka in southernmost Bhavnagar District, about 5.5 km south of the present mouth of the Shetrunji River" (coordinate based on Gopnath Beach)
"the faunal composition, lithics and geological context indicate a broad Late Pleistocene age ~125-12 thousand years ago" so there is no precise dating information
the fossils are from the "carbonate Unit 3" of the Gopnath Formation
"the faunal composition, lithics and geological context indicate a broad Late Pleistocene age ~125-12 thousand years ago" so there is no precise dating information
the fossils are from the "carbonate Unit 3" of the Gopnath Formation
Environment
Lithology: limestone
Habitat comments: from "A carbonate aeolianite" that "forms a sea cliff" and specifically a "cluster (~8 x 8 m) of rubble found on the beach"
the depositional context is clearly marine
there are no archaeological features
the depositional context is clearly marine
there are no archaeological features
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,turtles
Sampling methods: surface
Sample size: 60 specimens
Sampling comments: "a salvage operation with an improvised sampling strategy... Preference was given to remains which were relatively complete and well preserved... A small portion of the Gopnath fossil assemblage was collected as loose surface finds on the beach" but most were chiseled from "blocks" of sediment
"numerous" Zootecus insularis shells were not counted
"numerous" Zootecus insularis shells were not counted
Metadata
Sample number: 4180
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-03-24 16:48:00
Modified: 2023-03-24 05:48:00
Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 60
extrapolated richness: 13.7
Fisher's α: 3.427
geometric series k: 0.7459
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8616
Shannon's H: 2.1309
Good's u: 0.9833
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Geochelone sp. | 1 | |
| "star tortoise" (Geochelone sensu stricto) | ||
| Nilssonia sp. | 5 | |
| Canis sp. | 11 | |
| Equus cf. sivalensis | 14 | |
| Equus cf. hemionus | 4 | grazer |
| Rhinoceros cf. unicornis | 6 | grazer-browser |
| Boselaphus sp. | 5 | |
| Bubalus sp. | 5 | |
| Bos sp. | 6 | |
| Sivacobus sankaliai | 3 | |
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