Golf Course
Basic information
Sample name: Golf Course
Sample aka: Melbourne
Reference: C. E. Ray. 1958. Additions to the Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Melbourne, Florida. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119(7):419-449 [ER 3119]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Florida
Coordinate: 28° 7' N, 80° 38' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "from Stratum 2 at the Golf Course locality, Melbourne" which is "2 miles west of Melbourne" (coordinate based on Melbourne)
Stratum 2 is considered to be definitely Late Pleistocene
Stratum 2 is considered to be definitely Late Pleistocene
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: "Fine white to light-brown sand containing a few local irregular lenses of marine shells and local accumulations of bones"
Methods
Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,marine mammals,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1195 specimens
Years: 1925 - 1929
Sampling comments: Museum of Comparative Zoology material "known as the Singleton Collection... acquired in 1928"
"human remains were deposited in the upper layers of Stratum 2 or on the erosion surface above Stratum 2"
"human remains were deposited in the upper layers of Stratum 2 or on the erosion surface above Stratum 2"
Metadata
Sample number: 3407
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 15:58:49
Modified: 2021-06-06 00:07:40
Abundance distribution
37 species
5 singletons
total count 1195
extrapolated richness: 49.3
Fisher's α: 7.237
geometric series k: 0.8551
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8942
Shannon's H: 2.7160
Good's u: 0.9958
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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