Table 10 CODE TRANSLATION (Linked Table 6) field descriptions.
From: Plant macrofossil data for 48-0 ka in the USGS North American Packrat Midden Database, version 5.0
Column | Field Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
A | REFERENCE | Citation including author(s) and date of publication of taxon list source publication. |
B | MCOUNT | Macrofossil count. Original symbols or numbers used to represent plant macrofossil relative abundance or counts, defined in the EXPLANATION field. |
C | TYPE_OF_COUNT | General type of counting scheme used. |
D | TAXA_COUNTED | Specifies whether the publication provides complete or partial taxon lists or if the taxon was added from material dated information. |
E | EXPLANATION | Defines the symbols used to represent relative abundance in the source publication. |
F | 0_1_2_CODE | The original MCOUNT value or symbol translated into a standard 0-1-2 presence-absence scale (0 = Absent, 1 = Rare, 2 = Present, 7 = Cannot translate, 9 = Possible contaminant). |
