Matsugae
Basic information
Sample name: Matsugae

Reference: S. Ogino, H. Otsuka, and H. Harunari. 2009. The middle Pleistocene Matsugae fauna, northern Kyushu, West Japan. Paleontological Research 13(4):367-384 [ER 3855]
Geography
Country: Japan

Coordinate: 33.88° N, 130.97° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Zone: QM4

Max Ma: 0.63

Min Ma: 0.43

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "in Kishi (Matsugae village, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, northern Kyushu"
coordinated based on Matsugae Reservoir and estimated from a map
assigned based on biochronology to mammalian biozone QM4, which is supposed to span 0.63 to 0.43 Ma

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Environment
Lithology: limestone

Taphonomic context: cave

Habitat comments: a cave found in a Permian limestone quarry
all of the fossils are from a "bone bed" layer that includes "calcareous matrix"
probably a pitfall trap based on Figure 2

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sample size: 50 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: the fossils were collected in the 1930s and 1940s and "some were broken and lost during World War II", apparently including several of the species listed in Table 1 that are not represented by numbered specimens

Metadata
Sample no: 4221

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-10 21:46:59

Modified: 2023-04-10 11:46:59

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
3 singletons
total count 50
geometric series index: 24.8
Fisher's α: 5.705
geometric series k: 0.8026
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8514
Shannon's H: 2.2157
Good's u: 0.9424
Register
Apodemus speciosus 14
Apodemus argenteus 6
†Microtus epiratticepoides 9
Lepus sp. 2
Cuon sp. 2
†Oriensictis nipponica 3
Meles sp. 1
Mustela itatsi (Japanese weasel)2
Panthera sp. 3
Cervus sp. 3
Sus scrofa (pig)1
Dicerorhinus sp. 3
Macaca cf. fuscata (Japanese macaque)19.4 kg