Natural Chimneys
Basic information
Sample name: Natural Chimneys
Reference: J. E. Guilday. 1962. The Pleistocene local fauna of the Natural Chimneys, Augusta County, Virginia. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 36(9):87-122 [ER 3219]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Coordinate: 38° 22' N, 79° 5' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "one mile north of the town of Mt. Solon... the major portion of the bones was removed from the floor of Brown's Cave, although a few... were found in wall cracks in the Cave of the Wooden Steps"
there is a typo in the published longitude value, which reads 30º 22' N. 70º 5' W.
"not a temporal unit... late Pleistocene and early Recent" but Guilday believes extinct megafauna to have survived into the "early post-Wisconsin" and thinks the fauna is "very close in time" to the late Pleistocene "New Paris #4" fauna, and later authors such as Guilday et al. (1964) and Holman (Fossil Snakes of North America) assign it to the late Pleistocene
there is a typo in the published longitude value, which reads 30º 22' N. 70º 5' W.
"not a temporal unit... late Pleistocene and early Recent" but Guilday believes extinct megafauna to have survived into the "early post-Wisconsin" and thinks the fauna is "very close in time" to the late Pleistocene "New Paris #4" fauna, and later authors such as Guilday et al. (1964) and Holman (Fossil Snakes of North America) assign it to the late Pleistocene
Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: bird accumulation, cave
Habitat comments: "a former fissure system... cave fill... contained fragments of dolomite, speleothems, teeth, bone fragments and modern plant rootlets... The deposit of bone accumulated in several ways. Most important was the activity of owls"
Methods
Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1185
Sampled by: T. B. Ruhoff
Years: 1949 - 1961
Sampling comments: a millipede, 31 species of snails, fishes, samalanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, and birds are listed but not inventoried
Metadata
Sample: 3539
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-14 20:58:39
Modified: 2019-09-14 21:25:43
Abundance distribution
56 species
7 singletons
total count 1185
standardised richness: 41.1
Fisher's α: 12.213
geometric series k: 0.9169
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9489
Shannon's H: 3.3431
Good's u: 0.9941
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