Rio Engabao
Basic information
Sample name: Rio Engabao

Reference: A. G. Edmund. 1965. A late Pleistocene fauna from the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador. Royal Ontarion Museum Life Sciences Contribution 63:1-21 [ER 3401]
Geography
Country: Ecuador

Coordinate: 2° 18' S, 81° 49' W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: from four point localities "on the bank of a tributary of the dry Rio Engabao, about half way between the villages of Ancon and Atahualpa"
late Pleistocene based on faunal contents

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Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: estuarine deposit

Habitat comments: "an apparently estuarine deposit, in association with marine fossils such as mollusks, echinoderm spines and shark teeth... probably laid down by a large stream"
lithology is not discussed

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other large mammals

Excluded forms: turtles

Sample size: 22 specimens

Years: 1958, 1961

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: apparently a surface collection
Geochelone (Testudo) cf. gallardoi, Geoemyda sp., and turtle scraps are also present, but not inventoried

Metadata
Sample no: 3783

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-09 15:41:21

Modified: 2025-09-02 06:06:35

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
6 species
3 singletons
total count 22
geometric series index: 18.6
Fisher's α: 2.718
geometric series k: 0.5818
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4892
Shannon's H: 1.1186
Good's u: 0.8718
Register
†Eremotherium cf. laurillardi (ground sloth)15
"Eremotherium cf. carolinense"
Pampatherium sp. 1
osteoderm referred to P. "occidentale" based on geography alone
†Equus cf. neogeus (horse)2
"Equus (Amerhippus) cf. santae-elenae"
†Odocoileus cf. salinae (deer)2
Lutra sp. 1
compared to this genus
†Smilodon populator (saber-toothed cat)1
"Smilodon neogaeus"