Fossil Butte (FB-16)
Basic information
Sample name: Fossil Butte (FB-16)
Reference: G. F. Gunnell, J.-P. Zonneveld, and W. S. Bartels. 2016. Stratigraphy, mammalian paleontology, paleoecology, and age correlation of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 90(5):981-1011 [ER 4124]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Wyoming
Coordinate: 41.86° N, -110.75° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Formation: Wasatch
Time interval: Early Eocene
Zone: Wasatchian
Geography comments: near the top of the Valley Center section
"from the uppermost 180 m of the main body of the Wasatch Formation"
of "middle to late early Eocene age (Wa-6-Wa-7)"
"from the uppermost 180 m of the main body of the Wasatch Formation"
of "middle to late early Eocene age (Wa-6-Wa-7)"
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Habitat comments: shown in Fig. 1 to be at the western edge of the center of sec. 30, R117W, T22N
from thin beds of sandstone within a "mottled yellow mudstone"
it is not clear whether these are channel or overbank sandstones
from thin beds of sandstone within a "mottled yellow mudstone"
it is not clear whether these are channel or overbank sandstones
Methods
Life forms: primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sample size: 25 specimens
Museum: Fossil Butte National Monument
Sampling comments: collection methods are not stated
Metadata
Sample number: 4566
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2024-12-07 01:58:20
Modified: 2024-12-07 01:58:20
Abundance distribution
13 species
9 singletons
total count 25
geometric series index: 63.6
Fisher's α: 10.915
geometric series k: 0.8503
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8483
Shannon's H: 2.2412
Good's u: 0.6465
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Palaeoryctidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Esthonyx cf. bisulcatus | 1 | |
| Ectoganus sp. | 1 | |
| †Microsyops latidens | 2 | |
| †Microsyops knightensis | 1 | |
| †Hyopsodus minor | 2 | |
| †Apheliscus cf. insidiosus | 1 | |
| †Ectocion superstes | 1 | |
| Paramyinae indet. | 1 | |
| †Protorohippus venticolum | 7 | |
| plus 3 indeterminate equids | ||
| †Bunophorus grangeri | 1 | |
| †Diacodexis secans | 5 | |
| †Hexacodus uintensis | 1 | |