Crystal Ball Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Crystal Ball Cave
Sample aka: LACM 4534; BYUVP 772
Reference: T. H. Heaton. 1985. Quaternary paleontology and paleoecology of Crystal Ball Cave, Millard County, Utah: with emphasis on mammals and description of a new species of fossil skunk. Great Basin Naturalist 45(3):337-390 [ER 3109]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Utah
Coordinate: 39.48° N, -114.03° W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "4.8 km (3 miles) northwest of the town of Gandy, and 0.9 km (0.6 miles) east o f the Utah-Nevada border" in sec. 30, T. 15 S, R. 19 W.
"Late Wisconsinan" with four dates, one a minimum and the others ranging from 18, 820 + 1510 - 1270 to 12, 980 + 2680 - 2000 years B.P.
"Late Wisconsinan" with four dates, one a minimum and the others ranging from 18, 820 + 1510 - 1270 to 12, 980 + 2680 - 2000 years B.P.
Climate and habitat
Lithology: limestone
Taphonomic context: cave
Habitat comments: "the sediments are mostly derived from within the cave by weathering of the limestone and calcite crystals... It is difficult to say if any other animals besides wood rats contributed to transporting fossils into the cave... Clearly no inorganic processes such as wind, water, or gravity could have been responsible for the fossil deposits"
Methods
Life forms: herbs, bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, fishes, scarab beetles, other arthropods, snails
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 9651
Years: 1977, 1981, 1982
Sampling comments: "Sediment was also taken to the lab in bags and screened"
Metadata
Sample: 3396
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-29 19:15:16
Modified: 2019-08-29 19:22:36
Abundance distribution
64 species
8 singletons
total count 9651
Fisher's α: 9.200
geometric series k: 0.8735
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6555
Shannon's H: 1.5955
Good's u: 0.9992
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